BAGHDAD/DUBAI
Iran and Saudi Arabia have resumed key talks after negotiations were suspended last month, a senior Iraqi official told media on Saturday. “Talks resumed last Thursday in Baghdad,” the official said, without giving further details.
Iran’s Nour news agency confirmed a meeting attended by “senior officials from the secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the head of the Saudi intelligence service”.
Shia-majority Iran and the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia support rival sides in several conflict zones across the region, including in Yemen, where the Houthi rebels are backed by Tehran, and Riyadh leads a military coalition supporting the government.
In 2016, Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran after the kingdom executed revered Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
