Iranian embassy to reopen in Saudi Arabia

Subject : International Relations

Section: Places in news

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Iran has confirmed it will reopen its embassy in Saudi Arabia this week, seven years after it was closed due to a diplomatic rift.
In a short statement on Monday, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said Tehran’s embassy in Riyadh will be reopened on Tuesday, followed by the reopening of its consulate in Jeddah and its representative office with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation a day later.

About Iran

Iran, a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia.
The country maintains a rich and distinctive cultural and social continuity dating back to the Achaemenian period, which began in 550 BCE.
In recent decades it has become known for its unique brand of Islamic republic. Although the system of government was intended as a parliamentary democracy, persistent instability both at home and abroad have steered its slide into a more theocratic authoritarianism.
Geographically, much of Iran consists of a central desert plateau, which is ringed on all sides by lofty mountain ranges that afford access to the interior through high passes. Most of the population lives on the edges of this forbidding waterless waste.
The capital is Tehrān, a sprawling jumbled metropolis at the southern foot of the Elburz Mountains.