{"id":2004787,"date":"2023-08-18T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-crown-prince-hosts-iranian-foreign-minister\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:03:26","slug":"saudi-crown-prince-hosts-iranian-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-crown-prince-hosts-iranian-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Crown Prince hosts Iranian Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsaudi-crown-prince-hosts-iranian-foreign-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2004787&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Saudi Crown Prince Meets Iranian Foreign Minister\u2063 in Historic Talks<\/h2>\n<p>Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Iran&#8217;s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Friday in the highest-level talks since the countries reconciled in March after\u2062 years of bitter rivalry that \u200bdestabilized the region.<\/p>\n<p>The unscheduled meeting in Jeddah comes a day\u2064 after Amirabdollahian arrived in the\u2063 kingdom and declared ties between the countries \u200cwere &#8220;on the right \u2064track&#8221; following talks with his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Discussions were frank, beneficial and productive,&#8221; Amirabdollahian said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media post<\/a> after meeting \u200dthe \u200bde facto Saudi ruler, adding\u2062 that the countries &#8220;agree\u200d on the security and development of all in the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed bin \u200bSalman, widely known \u200cas MbS, has pushed to reorient Saudi foreign policy in recent years amid troubles in its historically close relationship\u2062 with the\u2063 United States.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the \u200cmeeting on\u2064 Iranian state\u2063 media showed MbS and Amirabdollahian smiling as \u2062they spoke, while\u200d Prince Faisal and the Iranian delegation looked on. Saudi state news agency SPA said they discussed international and regional developments.<\/p>\n<p>Rivalry between Iran&#8217;s revolutionary, Shi&#8217;ite Muslim leaders and \u2064Saudi \u2062Arabia&#8217;s\u2064 Sunni ruling family dominated \u200dthe Middle East for years as they competed for\u200b influence in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen,\u2064 and\u200b Bahrain amid a wave of sectarian bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>However, China brokered a rapprochement \u200bin March leading to \u2063a resumption of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iraq-government-issues-arrest-warrants-for-iraqi-speakers-who-championed-peace-with-israel\/\" title=\"Iraq Government Issues Arrest Warrants For Iraqi Speakers Who Championed Peace With Israel\">full diplomatic relations<\/a>, which Saudi Arabia had broken off in 2016 when protesters \u200battacked its Tehran embassy\u2063 over\u2064 Riyadh&#8217;s execution of a prominent Shi&#8217;ite cleric.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Faisal visited Tehran in June and said he hoped\u200d Iranian president Ebrahim\u2062 Raisi would visit the kingdom\u200b at the &#8220;appropriate time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After years of \u2062competition, and with some of the main regional arenas for their competition more stable than in previous years, both sides have reason to change tack.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader\u2064 Ayatollah \u200cAli Khamenei wanted to end political and economic isolation pushed by the United States and saw new\u2062 relations with\u2064 Saudi Arabia as a way to do so, Iranian officials have \u200csaid.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2063 had meanwhile lost confidence in U.S. commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-crown-prince-hosts-iranian-foreign-minister\/\" title=\"Saudi Crown Prince hosts Iranian Foreign Minister\">shared regional\u200d security\u2062 concerns<\/a> and wanted to bolster ties with China, which has retained good relations\u2062 with Iran. This\u2064 month\u2063 it succeeded in getting China to\u2062 attend a diplomatic meeting on Ukraine that Beijing had earlier\u200d avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Prince\u200b Faisal also spoke \u200cby phone with U.S. secretary of \u2062state Antony Blinken, with the pair discussing more coordination to boost &#8220;security \u200dand stability in\u200c the Middle\u2062 East region,&#8221; Saudi state media reported on \u200dFriday.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom;\u2063 Writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Mark Potter and Conor Humphries)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman held a significant meeting with Iran&#8217;s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in Jeddah. This encounter marks the highest-level talks between the two countries since their reconciliation in March, ending years of destabilizing rivalry. Amirabdollahian&#8217;s visit and his statement about improving ties preceded this unexpected meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2004788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}