After seven years of hostility, Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish bilateral relations and re-open embassies within two months.
As per international media an announced was made in this regard on Friday after four days of previously undisclosed talks in Beijing between top security officials from the two rival Middle East powers. State media of the both countries have also confirmed this development.
Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran in 2016 after its embassy in Tehran was stormed during a dispute between the two countries over Riyadh’s execution of a cleric. The hostility between Riadh and Tehran later threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East from Yemen to Syria.
Ideological differences between the two countries have a long history. Due to this not only people of Iran and Saudi Arabia had suffered losses but others counties of the regions particularly people of Syria, Yamen, Iraq and Lebanon are also victims of enmity between these two countries. The current wars and political instability in Syria, Yemen and Iraq are the examples of the devastation caused by the hostility between Tehran and Riadh.
It is a fact that due to this enmity both the Muslims countries are playing in the hand enemies and being used against each other. Hope both the countries would have learned a lesson from the history and as a result now they will make it sure not to be used against each other anymore and together will do efforts to bring peace back in the region.
Restoration of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia is not good a news only for the people of the both countries but also a good news for the regions and for all Muslims. God will, both the countries stop their enmity forever, become close friends and together work for the betterment of Muslims as both have potential to lead the Muslim Umma.
