KUWAIT More than six years after Kuwait withdrew its top representative to Tehran in solidarity with Saudi Arabia, which cut ties with the Islamic Republic in 2016, Kuwait has chosen its ambassador to Iran, the two nations said on Sunday.
On its website, the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported that on Saturday in Tehran, Ambassador Badr Abdullah Al-Menikh presented his credentials to Hossein Amir Abdollahian.
The nomination of Munikh as Iran’s representative was recognised by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kuwait already hosts a representative of Tehran.
This action takes place as Saudi Arabia and Iran hold Iraqi-sponsored negotiations to restore diplomatic ties that have been severed since 2016, when Iranian protesters attempted to storm and torch the Kingdom’s embassies in Tehran and Mashhad over Riyadh’s execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr after his conviction in cases involving him.
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In sympathy with Riyadh, Kuwait recalled its envoy to Iran while other Gulf Arab nations reduced their ties with the Islamic Republic. Kuwait has maintained relatively good relations with Tehran under a foreign policy that balances relations with its larger neighbors.
Talks between the two regional rivals (Tehran and Riyadh) are still in the process of being explored, but the two sides issue from time to time assurances that they are positive .
In an effort to mend relations with Tehran after years of antagonism and tension, a top Emirati official stated last month that the UAE was trying to send an ambassador to Iran.
After a year of negotiations between the Saudi and Iranian foreign ministries in Baghdad, the Iraqi foreign minister Fouad Hussein stated in a televised interview with a Kurdish channel last July that the Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers will meet publicly in Baghdad.
According to Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, this comes after Iran stated that it had struck an agreement with Saudi Arabia to shift the talks aimed at mending the relations ruptured between the two regional rivals years ago from the security level to the political one.
According to the Iraqi minister at the time, who spoke in Kurdish, there have been five meetings between Saudi Arabia and Iran thus far, all of which have involved intelligence and security services. A meeting between the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran will take place in Baghdad.
The Iraqi minister added, “We are currently working very hard to find time to invite the Saudi foreign minister and the Iranian foreign minister, and they will meet in public.”
Amir Abdollahian had previously confirmed that Tehran had obtained a message from the foreign minister of Iraq stating that the Saudi side was prepared to move the negotiations to the political and public level, adding, We have expressed our readiness to enter the negotiations into the political stage.
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