Embassies in capitals of Saudi Arabia, Iran to reopen ‘within days,’ says Iranian minister

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Saudi Arabia and Iran will reopen embassies in each other’s capital cities “within days,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday in a sign of thawing relations between the two countries. Both the nations had shut down their diplomatic missions seven years ago. At a news conference in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Amirabdollahian did not give specific dates for the reopening of the embassies, which closed in 2016. “During the last phone call between the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia on Eid al-Fitr, we agreed to work in the next coming days on the reopening of the...