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The King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, has invited the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, to pay a state visit to Riyadh, reported the deputy chief of staff of the Iranian presidency for political affairs, Mohammad Jamshidi. .

On March 10, Iran and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to resume their diplomatic relations, broken since 2016, and embassies in both countries are expected to reopen within two months.

"In a letter to President Raisi, the King of Saudi Arabia welcomed the agreement between the two brother countries (and) invited him to Riyadh," Jamshidi wrote this Sunday on his Twitter account, adding that the Iranian president "thanked the invitation".

On the other hand, this same day the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, announced that the two countries agreed to hold a meeting between their main diplomats.

He added that three venues had been suggested for the meeting, without specifying which ones.

The agreement between Tehran and Riyadh was reached with the mediation of China during trilateral talks held in Beijing, where, since March 6, the secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, had held intense negotiations with his Saudi counterpart. , Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban, to resolve the differences between the two nations.

In the joint statement issued by Iran, Saudi Arabia and China, the two Islamic countries stressed respect for sovereignty and non-interference in each other's internal affairs.

In addition, they agreed to apply their security cooperation agreement signed on April 17, 2001, as well as to implement the economic, commercial, technical, scientific, cultural, and sports cooperation agreement signed on May 27, 1998.

Riyadh and Tehran, regional rivals for decades, saw their relations sour after the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia in January 2016. The same year, the Arab kingdom severed ties with Tehran after protesters attacked the embassy. Saudi in the Iranian capital.

In the Yemen conflict, active since 2014, Iran has supported the Houthi insurgents, who are fighting against the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

In 2019 Riyadh blamed the Islamic Republic for attacks on its oil facilities, which left half the country without supplies.

(Taken from RT in Spanish)