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Iranian MP: Saudi officials to meet Iranian delegation in Iraq

Iranian MP: Saudi officials to meet Iranian delegation in Iraq
posted onMay 17, 2022
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The Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers are expected to meet in Iraq soon, an Iranian lawmaker told the semi-official Fars news agency on Tuesday.

The two countries and old foes are taking slow steps to ease tensions.

Reuters reported on the news, saying that Iran's foreign ministry was not immediately available to comment.

"Iranian's Hossein Amirabdollahian and Saudi Arabia's Faisal bin Farhan will meet in Iraq soon to discuss issues like the reopening of embassies and regional matters such as the Yemen crisis," Iranian lawmaker Javad Karimi Qoddusi told Fars, without elaborating.

Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, locked in proxy conflicts across the Middle East, started direct talks last year.

A fifth round of talks between the regional rivals was held in April in Baghdad, which Tehran described as "positive".

Riyadh severed ties with Tehran in 2016 after Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran following the execution of a Shi'ite cleric in Saudi Arabia.