Due to the US's dominance in the Middle East, China, one of the biggest importers of oil from Iran and Saudi Arabia, had for a long time been a minor player in the region.
"In a letter to President Raisi ... the King of Saudi Arabia welcomed the deal between the two brotherly countries [and] invited him to Riyadh," tweeted Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president's deputy chief of staff for political affairs.
The agreement is extremely significant, because it is the first time that China intervenes so dramatically and effectively in the affairs of the Middle East and because it comes at a moment when the United States was trying, by increasing pressure on Tehran, to push Saudi Arabia to establish
Iranian Ambassador to India, Iraj Elahi in a press briefing here said that the resumption of the diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia mediated by China should not be a concern for India, adding that this step could benefit India since it helps intensify stability and peace in the
The US research group Foundation for Defense of Democracies said in a report last December that CICL is a Latin American branch of Iran's al-Mustafa International University, which the report describes as Tehran's principal institution for recruiting, indoctrinating and training foreign conv
The foreign ministers of Iran and Uzbekistan discussed the situation in Afghanistan and stressed the need to cooperate as neighbours to strengthen the country. The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Baxtiyor Saidov, travelled to Iran to meet with the country's officials, including his Iranian c
Iranian media reported that the schoolgirl poisoning in Qom was followed by at least 58 schools in eight provinces and in the capital city of Tehran, and the cities of Borujerd and Ardebi. Dozens of girls were hospitalized as well as some boys and teachers who were also affected by the to
In recent months, hundreds of episodes of respiratory distress in schoolgirls have been reported around the nation, primarily in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, with some requiring hospitalisation.
Iran will officially hand over the embassy to the Taliban in the coming days according to an Afghan diplomat who has been in contact with the officials of the Iranian foreign ministry.