SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN RESTORE RELATIONS

Riyadh and Tehran have announced this Friday that they have restored their normal diplomatic relations. A decision that will undoubtedly have a major impact in the Middle East.

These relations had been withdrawn in 2016 when there was a violent demonstration outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran over the execution in Saudi Arabia of the Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, accused of conspiracy.

The negotiations that have led to the reestablishment of relations have been carried out in Beijing, with the intervention of the Chinese authorities, between the head of Iranian national security, Ali Shamkhani, and the Saudi government adviser, Mohamed Al-Aiban.

Undoubtedly, this restoration, apart from being an achievement mediated by China, has undone the efforts that the US president, Joe Biden, had been making to convince the Prince, Mohamed Bin Salman, to recognize Israel, as seven Arab countries have done.

Israel loses an important card in the Middle East, since Saudi Arabia maintains that in order to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel must accept the Arab peace plan, outlined by Riyadh, which includes the formation of an independent Palestinian state with the capital in eastern Al Qods

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