“Talks resumed last Thursday in Baghdad,” the official said, without giving further details.
Iran’s Nour news agency also confirmed that a meeting was attended by senior officials from the secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the head of the Saudi intelligence service.
For me the biggest inspiration are the words of the Saudi Crown Prince. In early March this year he had said, Saudi Arabia and Iran are ‘neighbours forever’ and that it was better for both of them to work it out and to look for ways in which they can coexist.
However, the contentious selection of words in AFP is evident which says, “Shia-majority Iran and the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia support rival sides in several conflict zones across the region, including in Yemen, where the Houthi rebels are backed by Tehran, and Riyadh leads a military coalition supporting the government. In 2016, Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran after the kingdom executed revered Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.”
The selection of words reminded me the western mantra, “Iran is a bigger threat as compared to Israel”. This was used to instigate Iraq to attack on Iran over four decades ago. The war continued for nearly ten years, only because two Arab countries provided money and ammunition to Iraq.
The economic sanctions imposed on Iran for more than four decades and the refusal of United States to implement nuclear deal signed by world super powers with Iran are the testaments that the super power does not want Iran to export oil and attain economic prosperity. It is highly regrettable that Saudi Arabia has fallen prey to the US mantra and has been supporting economic sanctions on Iran.
“It is expected that a joint meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries will be held in the near future,” Nour said, describing what it called the “positive atmosphere of the recent meeting, which raised the hopes of a resumption of bilateral relations”.
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