Saudi Gazette report

MASHHAD — The Head of Iran's Foreign Ministry office in Razavi Khorasan Province Mohammad Beheshti Monfared has confirmed that the direct flights between the Iranian city of Mashhad and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, will resume soon.

Monfared made the remarks while speaking to Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). He said that the flights between Saudi Arabia and Iran will resume after updating agreements and finalizing negotiations between the officials of the two countries in the aviation sector.

Earlier, a Saudi technical team arrived in Tehran and visited its diplomatic places and embassy to discuss reopening Saudi Arabia's diplomatic missions in Iran, and then continued its trip to Mashhad to visit the Saudi Consulate General and review ways to reopen it.

Monfared said that the previous premises of Saudi Arabia’s Consulate General in Mashhad have not been used for seven years.

The Iranian technical team has also made a similar visit to Riyadh for the purpose of the embassy reopening there, IRNA said. It noted that the delegation will also pay a visit to Jeddah to inspect the Iran consulate office and its mission to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

It is worth mentioning that the Saudi delegation arrived in Iran three days after a meeting between Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Beijing.

The foreign ministers had signed a memorandum of understanding to resume diplomatic relations between the two countries, nearly a month after the tripartite agreement reached between Saudi Arabia and Iran, under the mediation of China, in this respect.