Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies in a deal brokered by China.
The Associated PressSaudi national security adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban, left, and Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, right, speak in Beijing on Friday.The deal, struck in Beijing this week amid its ceremonial National People's Congress, represents a major diplomatic victory for the Chinese as Gulf Arab states perceive the United States slowly withdrawing from the wider Middle East.
In the footage Yi is joined by Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and Saudi national security adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban. At a briefing on the economy later, President Joe Biden said in response to a reporter, "the better the relations between Israel and the Arab neighbours, the better it is for everyone."
In the years since, tensions have risen dramatically across the Middle East since the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2018. Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks in the time since, including one that targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry in 2019, temporarily halving the kingdom's crude production.
Kristian Ulrichsen, a research fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute who long has studied the region, said Saudi Arabia reaching the deal with Iran came after the United Arab Emirates reached a similar understanding with Tehran.
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