INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Riyadh-Tehran ties can contribute to the stability of the region."We are willing to hold deep talks with Iran within international
conventions," the GCC chief underlined, Press TV reported.Pointing to the economic woes facing Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region,
reopen embassies seven years after their relations were severed.In a joint statement after signing the agreement, Tehran and Riyadh
agreed to implement a security cooperation agreement signed in April2001 and another accord reached in May 1998 to boost economic,
commercial, investment, technical, scientific, cultural, sports, and youth affairs cooperation.The meeting between Iranian Foreign Minister
Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on April 6 marked the first such meeting in seven years
and emphasized the need to implement the China-brokered agreement.Iran appointed Alireza Enayati as the Iranian envoy to Riyadh in May
at the Foreign Ministry.On May 11, Iran's foreign minister announced that Saudi Arabia had appointed a new ambassador to Tehran, in line
with the China-brokered March agreement between the two countries to revive relations.Diplomatic relations were severed by Saudi Arabia in
January 2016, after Iranian protesters, angered by the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr by the Saudi government,
stormed its embassy in Tehran.
