The detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran has the potential to reshape relations across a region characterised by turbulence for decades [File: China Daily via Reuters]
Al Jazeera: Saudi, Iran foreign ministers to meet during Ramadan
Planned meeting comes after Saudi Arabia and Iran signed a landmark deal to restore ties after seven years of estrangement.
Iran and Saudi Arabia’s top diplomats have agreed to meet before the end of the holy month of Ramadan to implement a landmark bilateral reconciliation deal that was brokered by China.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, made the decision after holding their second phone call in less than a week, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Monday.
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Update #1: Saudi, Iranian Foreign Ministers to Meet During Muslim Holy Month (Reuters)
Update #2: Saudi, Iranian foreign ministers plan to meet during Ramadan (AFP)
WNU Editor: Both sides are rushing to improve ties. I concur with this analysis that Saudi Arabia wants out of the Yemen war .... ‘Stuck in a swamp’: With Iran detente, Saudi Arabia seeks exit from Yemen war (Times of Israel).
The Saudi diplomat is keeping his distance and has to lean a little. Reading too much into it? Time will tell.
ReplyDeleteWish I knew more about internal Saudi politics to understand how the avg Sunni is taking these developments. 50 years of near-genocidal Wahhabist preaching has surely created at least some level of opposition to rapprochement among the more conservative types.
ReplyDeleteThe most likely method for western interference in KSA is to stir up that crowd and try to unite them under the banner of one of the old guard CIA-connected princes that MBS has under light house arrest.
Going to keep my eyes open for palace intrigues in the absence of good street level English reporting.
Trying to get the American public stirred up against MBS is a Russian faceplant. MBS's policy ,which threatens America is not different than any other Saudi leader in the last 40 or 50 years, which I might add is not talked about or acknowledged.
ReplyDeleteIf Chris is any indication ,then 12:23's pathetic attempt to stir crap up will not work. Maybe 12:23 and his peers get year end bonuses for how many people they think they got to froth at the mouth.
What the fuck are you even talking about schizo. Take your meds. I'm not stirring anything up by musing on KSA politics.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't have any meds, obviously untreated
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