Saudi Arabia has invited Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi for an official visit, according to its foreign minister, in the latest sign of a rapprochement between the regional rivals who have agreed to restore diplomatic relations and ease longstanding tensions.
Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Saturday became the first senior Saudi official to visit Tehran in about two decades.
Relations between the two countries should be based on “mutual respect”, “non-interference in each other’s domestic affairs”, “heeding security of shipping corridors as well as non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction”, he said at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart.