Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi is heading to Saudi Arabia Wednesday for talks on efforts to finish Israeli assaults on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, his ministry mentioned.
Hamas and Hezbollah are each within the Iran-backed “Axis for Resistance” of militant teams within the area.
Araghchi will go to the Gulf kingdom “in furtherance of our diplomatic efforts, in coordination with international locations of the area”, ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei posted on X.
He mentioned the journey would deal with stopping “the Israeli regime’s genocide & aggression and to alleviate the ache and struggling of our brothers and sisters in Gaza and Lebanon”.
Shiite-dominated Iran and Sunni Muslim-majority Saudi Arabia resumed relations in March 2023 underneath a shock China-brokered deal following a seven-year rupture.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter and custodian of Islam’s two holiest websites, paused US-brokered talks on recognising Israel after the Gaza conflict broke out between Hamas Palestinian militants and Israel.
Iran has repeatedly accused its arch-foe Israel of committing genocide and conflict crimes for the reason that Gaza conflict started.
In Beirut on Friday after the battle unfold to Lebanon, Araghchi mentioned Tehran helps efforts for a “simultaneous” ceasefire in Lebanon and the Palestinian territory.
The Islamic republic known as Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault “a turning level within the historical past of the professional battle of the Palestinian individuals in opposition to Israel”.
