{"id":3727,"date":"2026-11-03T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:03:58","slug":"talks-with-saudi-arabia-are-ongoing-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"Talks with Saudi Arabia are ongoing: Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia are ongoing as Tehran aims to \u200breach new regional security arrangements for countries in \u200cthe region without foreign military involvement, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, top \u200bofficials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met \u200bIranian officials in Tehran, the first high-level \u2060contact between Iran and the three nations since \u200bAugust.<\/p>\n<p>The US-Israeli war on Iran started in late \u200bFebruary, and since then, fighting has spread to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh said the visit was intended to open \u200bnegotiating channels to \u201cprevent the return of military escalation,\u201d \u200bas fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis had intensified \u200cin \u2060recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Houthi attacks on the kingdom escalated as the powerful militia advanced towards the Bab El Mandeb Strait, a key shipping chokepoint that lies on the \u200bopposite side \u200bof the \u2060Arabian Peninsula from the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis have also attacked Saudi oil \u200bfacilities and airports, including Riyadh\u2019s international \u200bairport, disrupting \u2060flights and oil exports and drawing Saudi airstrikes on Yemen in response.<\/p>\n<p>Impoverished Yemen has been mired in \u2060a \u200bcivil war since the Houthis \u200bpushed the internationally recognised, Saudi-backed government out of the capital, Sanaa, \u200bin 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia are ongoing as Tehran aims to \u200breach new regional security arrangements for countries in \u200cthe region without foreign military involvement, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X on Tuesday. Last week, top \u200bofficials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met \u200bIranian officials in Tehran, the first high-level \u2060contact between Iran and the three nations since \u200bAugust. The US-Israeli war on Iran started in late \u200bFebruary, and since then, fighting has spread to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Riyadh said the visit was intended to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}