Iran affirms fifth round of talks held with Saudi Arabia

Provincial adversaries, Iran and Saudi Arabia, held a fifth round of “positive” talks in Baghdad keep going Thursday on normalizing reciprocal relations, and Iran’s Foreign Ministry representative, Saeed Khatibzadeh, affirmed on Monday, and Reuters reports.

Transcendently Sunni Muslims, Saudi Arabia, and Shia Iran, which are secured in intermediary clashes across the Middle East, began direct discussions last year to attempt to contain pressures.

However, Iran suspended the discussions in March without giving an explanation after Saudi Arabia executed 81 men in its greatest mass execution in many years. Tehran denounced the executions that activists said included 41 Shia Muslims.

“The fifth round of talks between Saudi Arabia and Tehran were held in Iraq and the discussions were moderate and positive,” Khatibzadeh told a broadcast week after week news meeting.

On Sunday, Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Fouad Hussein, said Baghdad would have a new round of talks.

Khatibzadeh said “beginning discussions were in progress among Tehran and Riyadh on sending 40,000 Iranian pioneers to the pilgrimage in Mecca” this year.

Riyadh disavowed Tehran in 2016 after Iranian dissidents raged against the Saudi international safe haven in the Iranian capital following the execution of a Shia priest in Saudi Arabia.