ISLAMABAD, Oct 9 (Asia Free Press): Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Tehran and Riyadh have reached some agreements in their ongoing reconciliatory talks, Arab media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[Iran] and cc have reached agreements in some areas,\u201d Al-Arabiya quoted Amir-Abdollahian as saying during a news conference in Beirut Friday, adding that talks are \u201cmoving in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur talks with Saudi Arabia are in the interest of the region \u2026 Iran and Saudi Arabia are two important countries who play an important role in stabilizing security in the region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran and Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Iran says negotiations with Saudi Arabia have made good progress, Riyadh has said talks with Tehran are still in the early stages, according to report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan confirmed on Sunday his country had held its first round of direct talks with Iran\u2019s new government last month, saying talks were in the \u201cexploratory phase.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese discussions are still in the exploratory phase. We hope they will provide a basis to address unresolved issues between the two sides and we will strive and work to realise that,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9 (Asia Free Press): Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Tehran and Riyadh have reached some agreements in their ongoing reconciliatory talks, Arab media reported. \u201c[Iran] and cc have reached agreements in some areas,\u201d Al-Arabiya quoted Amir-Abdollahian as saying during a news conference in Beirut Friday, adding that talks are \u201cmoving in […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,396,6],"tags":[302,200,688,689],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centralasia","category-latest","category-world","tag-agreement","tag-iran","tag-saudi","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}