{"id":53304,"date":"2023-03-10T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/iran-saudi-arabia-agree-restore-ties-china-talks"},"modified":"2023-03-10T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:17:00","slug":"iran-and-saudi-arabia-agree-to-restore-ties-after-china-brokered-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53304","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to restore ties after China-brokered talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embassies to reopen in move that could have wide implications for Iran nuclear deal and Yemen war<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Saudi Arabia, the two great oil-producing rivals of the Middle East, have agreed to restore ties and reopen embassies seven years after relations were severed.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement came after Chinese-brokered talks held in Beijing. \u201cAs a result of the talks, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies \u2026 within two months,\u201d Iran\u2019s state news agency Irna reported, citing a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/iran-saudi-arabia-agree-restore-ties-china-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embassies to reopen in move that could have wide implications for Iran nuclear deal and Yemen warIran and Saudi Arabia, the two great oil-producing rivals of the Middle East, have agreed to restore ties and reopen embassies seven years after relations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,448,1794,212,398,42,943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-iran","category-iran-nuclear-deal","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-saudi-arabia","category-world-news","category-yemen"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53304\/revisions\/53305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}