CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudan said on Monday that would restore diplomatic relations with Iran, seven years after they were severed and three months after a meeting between the countries’ foreign ministers.
Sudan, currently in the midst of a devastating war, cut diplomatic ties with Iran in 2016 following the storming of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran.
Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to resume ties in March under a deal negotiated by China, raising expectations that Tehran and other Arab countries would fully re-establish diplomatic relations.
The decision to resume relations “came after a number of high-level communications between the two countries and will serve their mutual interests”, the Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement.
While there was no immediate statement from Iran, its foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, said in July that the two countries were working on resuming ties after he met Sudan’s acting foreign minister, Ali al-Sadeq, in Baku.
(Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz, writing by Omar Abdel-Razek and Nafisa Eltahir, editing by Susan Fenton and Gareth Jones)
