TEHRAN — A senior Emirati security official is
due in
Iran on Monday, ISNA news agency reported, in the latest outreach
between the two countries since a downgrading of ties five years ago.
اضافة اعلان
UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun
bin Zayed Al-Nahyan "will arrive tomorrow in Tehran" at the
invitation of Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security
Council, the semi-official news agency said Sunday.
It will be the first visit of an official
from the UAE to Iran since the Gulf state in 2016 downgraded ties with the
Islamic republic.
That came after protesters attacked Saudi
diplomatic missions in Iran following Saudi Arabia's execution of a revered
Shiite cleric.
Shiite-majority Iran and its Sunni rival
Saudi Arabia have held several rounds of talks since April aimed at improving
ties.
"The development and reinforcement of
bilateral relations and examination of regional developments" will be
under discussion during Sheikh Tahnoun's visit, ISNA said.
The mission will follow a November 26 trip
to the UAE and Kuwait by Ali Bagheri, Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator.
In
Abu Dhabi Bagheri met
Anwar Gargash,
adviser to the UAE president.
Bagheri said at the time there was agreement
to "open a new chapter" with the UAE and to "open new
horizons" with Kuwait, which also belongs with Saudi Arabia and the
Emirates in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council.
The Emirates and Iran have remained
important economic partners.
Bagheri will meet Sheikh Tahnoun before
talks between Iran and major world powers are expected to resume in Vienna
later this week.
The negotiations on Iran's nuclear program
ended on Friday after re-starting five days earlier.
Washington on Saturday warned it would not allow
Iran to "slow walk" the nuclear talks while at the same time ramping
up its atomic activities.
The US is an indirect party to the talks
involving Iran, Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia.
Iran has always insisted that its nuclear
program is peaceful.
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