TEHRAN (FNA)- First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber said that President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi has accepted an invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to visit the kingdom following the reconciliation deal between Tehran and Riyadh.
"King Salman has invited the president, and there has been a positive response to this invitation, and hopefully good things will happen," Mokhber stated on Monday.
"The main strategies of Mr. Rayeesi since the first day he was elected as the president have been to improve relations with the countries of the region," he added.
The two regional heavyweights announced on March 10 a Chinese-brokered agreement to restore ties seven years after they were severed.
According to a joint statement, Tehran and Riyadh have stressed the need to respect the national sovereignty and refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of one another.
The two countries have agreed to implement a security cooperation agreement signed in April 2001 and another accord reached in May 1998 to boost economic, commercial, investment, technical, scientific, cultural, sports, and youth affairs cooperation.
Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran in January 2016 after Iranian protesters, enraged by the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr by theRiyadh government, stormed its embassy in Tehran.
The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have also agreed to hold a meeting within the coming days.
In a telephone conversation with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian expressed pleasure with the positive trend of ties between Tehran and Riyadh.
He also stressed Iran’s resolve to expand its policy of neighborliness.