Iran’s foreign minister has traveled to Saudi Arabia. The trip Thursday to the kingdom marks the first by Tehran’s top diplomat in years after the two nations reached a détente earlier this year with Chinese mediation.
temporarily halving the kingdom’s crude production.
Religion also plays a key role in tensions as well. Saudi Arabia, home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that Muslims pray toward five times a day, has portrayed itself as the world’s leading Sunni nation. Iran’s theocracy, meanwhile, views itself as the protector of Islam’s Shiite minority. But after the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S.’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Gulf Arab nations including Saudi Arabia have begun reassessing how to manage relations with Iran. In March,
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