The Saudi Arabia Defense Minister, Prince Bin Salman, has several Iranian officials before a second round of conversations between Washington and Tehran about Iran’s nuclear program.
Prince Khalid said he transmitted a message from the king of Saudi Arabias Salman to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Thursday’s meeting in Tehran.
“We discussed our bilateral relations and issues of mutual interest,” he wrote in X.
“We believe that the relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia is beneficial for both countries,” Khamenei said at the meeting on Thursday.
Prince Khalid also with President Masoud Pezeshkian and the chief of cabinet of the armed forces of Iran, Mohammad Bagheri.
“The ties between the Saudi and Iranian armed forces have improved since the Beijing agreement,” Bagheri said after the meeting, according to Iranian state media.
Saudi Arabia has welcomed Iran’s nuclear conversations with the United States, saying that it supported efforts to resolve regional and international disputes.
Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed in a 2023 agreement negotiated by China to restore relations after years of hostility that had threatened stability and security in the Gulf region and helped feed conflicts in the Middle East from Yemen to Syria.
‘Crucial stage’
The trip of the Saudi Defense Minister coincided with a visit to Iran for the UN Nuclear Surveillance Chief Rafael Grossi, who warned that the United States and Iran were running out of time to reach an agreement.
The Iranian and American delegations will meet in Rome on Saturday for a second round of negotiations mediated by Omar, a week after the enemies of a long time made their highest level conversations since the president of the United States, Donald, his Fandosst Ter 2018.
Since he returned to occupy the White House in January, Trump has revived its so -called “maximum pressure” policy that imposed punishing economic sanctions will go and threatened military action if Tehran does not agree on an agreement.
“We are in a very crucial stage of important negotiations. We know we don’t have much time, that’s why I’m here … to facilitate this process,” Grossi said Thursday.
“We are working hard and we want to succeed,” he said at a joint press conference with the head of the Iran Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammad Eslami, recognizing that the effort to ensure an agreement “was not an easy process.”
When asked about the threats of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to attack Iran, Grossi urged people to “concentrate on our goal.”
“Once we reach our goal, all these things will evaporate because there will be no reason for the group,” he said.
In March, Trump sent a letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei urging the conversations and warning of possible military actions if Iran refused.
Khamenei has warned that while conversations with the United States had begun well, they could still be unsuccessful.
“Negotiations may or may not get results,” he said Tuesday.
Western governments have long accused Iran or who seek to acquire nuclear weapons capacity, an ambition that Tehran has constantly denied.
Since the collapse of the nuclear agreement in 2018, Iran has abandoned all the limits in its program and enriches Uranium to 60 percent purity, levels of degree of weapons near or 90 percent.
The surveillance cameras installed by the OIEA have interrupted the leg, while Iran has banned some of the most experienced inspectors of the Vienna headquarters.
But despite the tensions between Iran and the agency, access to its form has not completely revoked.