{"id":473202,"date":"2025-04-18T01:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=473202"},"modified":"2025-04-18T01:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:36:53","slug":"saudi-defence-minister-visits-iran-ahead-of-us-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/saudi-defence-minister-visits-iran-ahead-of-us-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi defence minister visits Iran ahead of US talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tehran<br \/>\nSaudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud arrived in Tehran on Thursday, in a rare visit by a senior Saudi royal to the Islamic Republic.<br \/>\nPrince Khalid met Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran\u2019s Armed Forces, Iranian news outlet ISNA reported, adding that \u201cdeveloping defense relations and regional cooperation to strengthen peace and stability in the region, as well as combating terrorism, are among the topics of discussion between the two senior defense officials.\u201d<br \/>\nIt has been decades since a senior Saudi royal last visited Iran: King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz did so in 1997, when reformist President Mohammad Khatami was in office. Prince Khalid is the son of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz.<br \/>\nThe Saudi-Iranian meeting comes as Tehran engages in talks with the United States to reach a new nuclear agreement, amid threats by the US and Israel to strike Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities if negotiations fail.<br \/>\nIran has warned that any attack on its territory could ignite a broader regional war.<br \/>\nThe US maintains a military presence in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states neighboring Iran.<br \/>\nThe two officials \u201cwill hold a number of meetings to discuss bilateral relations and issues of common interest,\u201d state-run Saudi Press Agency said ahead of the meeting.<br \/>\nBagheri is also a military officer in Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Crops (IRGC), which is designated as a terrorist organization by Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud arrived in Tehran on Thursday, in a rare visit by a senior Saudi royal to the Islamic Republic. Prince Khalid met Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran\u2019s Armed Forces, Iranian news outlet ISNA reported, adding that \u201cdeveloping defense relations and regional cooperation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-473202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saudi defence minister visits Iran ahead of US talks<\/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\/saudi-defence-minister-visits-iran-ahead-of-us-talks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saudi defence minister visits Iran ahead of US talks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tehran Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud arrived in Tehran on Thursday, in a rare visit by a senior Saudi royal to the Islamic Republic. 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