{"id":257349,"date":"2022-04-26T04:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T23:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=257349"},"modified":"2022-04-26T04:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T23:08:03","slug":"iran-confirms-fifth-round-of-talks-held-with-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/iran-confirms-fifth-round-of-talks-held-with-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran confirms fifth round of talks held with Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> TEHRAN<br \/>\nRegional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia held a fifth round of \u201cpositive\u201d talks in Baghdad last Thursday on normalising bilateral relations, Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh confirmed on Monday.<br \/>\nPredominantly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi\u2019ite Iran, which are locked in proxy conflicts across the Middle East, started direct talks last year to try to contain tensions.<br \/>\nBut Iran suspended the talks in March without giving a reason after Saudi Arabia executed 81 men in its biggest mass execution in decades. Tehran condemned the executions that activists said included 41 Shi\u2019ite Muslims.<br \/>\n\u201cThe fifth round of talks between Saudi Arabia and Tehran were held in Iraq and the talks were progressive and positive,\u201d Khatibzadeh told a televised weekly news conference.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, Iraq\u2019s Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein said Baghdad would host a new round of talks.<br \/>\nKhatibzadeh said \u201cinitial talks were underway between Tehran and Riyadh on sending 40,000 Iranian pilgrims to the haj in Mecca\u201d this year.<br \/>\nRiyadh severed ties with Tehran in 2016 after Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in the Iranian capital following the execution of a Shi\u2019ite cleric in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN Regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia held a fifth round of \u201cpositive\u201d talks in Baghdad last Thursday on normalising bilateral relations, Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh confirmed on Monday. Predominantly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi\u2019ite Iran, which are locked in proxy conflicts across the Middle East, started direct talks last year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1227,501,2473],"class_list":{"0":"post-257349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-saudi-arabia","10":"tag-talks"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran confirms fifth round of talks held with Saudi Arabia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/iran-confirms-fifth-round-of-talks-held-with-saudi-arabia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran confirms fifth round of talks held with Saudi Arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TEHRAN Regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia held a fifth round of \u201cpositive\u201d talks in Baghdad last Thursday on normalising bilateral relations, Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh confirmed on Monday. 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