Iran’s FM urges diplomacy in call with Saudi counterpart

Tehran offers to facilitate talks betwixt Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis pursuing deadly strikes connected the kingdom.

Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has received a telephone telephone from his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, the Saudi authorities quality bureau reported.

The 2 ministers discussed the caller escalations successful the portion aft the Houthis, backed by Iran, attacked Saudi airports.

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In a station connected Telegram connected Sunday, Araghchi emphasised that insisting connected a subject attack portion disregarding governmental solutions would further complicate the situation. The Iranian curate said the region’s crises person nary subject solutions. Last week, Araghchi said “there is nary subject solution” to the US war, adding, “only negotiations based connected justness and fairness” could extremity the conflict.

Araghchi said Iran is acceptable to supply immoderate assistance indispensable to facilitate the commencement of dialog betwixt Saudi Arabia and Yemen and to assistance execute a governmental solution.

Following the deadly attack connected the Riyadh airdrome that killed 12 radical and wounded 300, US President Donald Trump said helium would reconsider the US relation successful Yemen, adding that helium is weighing resuming strikes connected Iran.

These remarks correspond a departure from the president’s comments connected Thursday that Washington volition not resume strikes connected Iran until aft the US midterm elections.

Iranian and Saudi diplomatic ties person endured contempt longstanding friction, with embassies restored nether a 2023 Chinese-brokered agreement remaining operational. Before that breakthrough, a seven-year diplomatic rupture had fuelled determination proxy conflicts.

Riyadh’s narration with Tehran has deteriorated since the commencement of the US-Israel warfare connected Iran successful precocious February. Following the attacks, Tehran and its aligned forces have struck US subject assets and vigor infrastructure crossed the Gulf region, including lipid fields successful Saudi Arabia.

In March 2026, Prince Faisal warned Iran that tolerance of its attacks connected Saudi Arabia and those of neighbouring Gulf states is limited, calling connected Tehran to “recalculate” its strategy.