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Comment on the picture, During the meeting, opportunities for developing bilateral relations between the two countries in the field of military and defense were discussed.
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A high-level Saudi military delegation visited Iran and met with Iranian military officials to discuss military relations between the two countries, according to Iranian media reports.
The Public Relations of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces announced that the Chief of the General Staff of the Saudi Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Fayyad bin Hamid Al-Ruwaili, will meet with the Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, to consider bilateral relations and defense relations.
Iranian media described the visit as “rare,” and said a phone call in December 2023 was the last direct military contact between Saudi and Iranian military leaders, between Major General Bagheri and Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, who discussed regional developments and raised. level of cooperation.
The Saudi Ministry of Defense said in a brief statement on the
She said, at the meeting, “Possibilities for developing bilateral relations between the two countries in the military and defense field were discussed, in a way that contributes to increasing security and stability in the region.”
The Saudi military visit came two days after a Saudi official and a soldier were killed and a third wounded, in an attack on a camp occupied by Saudi forces in Yemen’s Hadramaut Governorate.
The Saudi-led coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen announced the killing of an officer and a non-commissioned officer, and the killing of another officer, “as a result of a treacherous and vicious attack,” inside coalition forces camp in the city of Sayun in Hadramaut Governorate, Friday.
Comment on the picture, The Kingdom announced naval movements with Iran in the Arabian Sea last October
Combined naval movements
For some time now, military cooperation between Riyadh and Tehran has taken the form of cooperation to protect common interests, and Saudi Arabia conducted joint military exercises with several countries, including Iran, in the Arabian Sea in October last year, according to what the Saudi Ministry of. Protection mentioned.
The spokesman of the ministry Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki confirmed that “the Royal Saudi Naval Forces had conducted joint naval exercises with the Iranian Naval Forces, along with other countries, in the Arabian Sea. “
But the Iranian Students’ Association (ISNA) reported at the time that Iranian forces were conducting “joint training with Russia and the Sultanate of Oman” in the “Northern Indian Ocean,” with the participation of six observer countries. , “Including Saudi Arabia.”
Iranian Navy Commander Admiral Shahram Irani said, “Saudi Arabia has requested to organize joint maneuvers in the Red Sea,” without specifying the date of these maneuvers.
Saudi Arabia resumed diplomatic relations with Iran in March 2023, with an agreement backed by China, after severing relations between them in 2016, when Iranian militants attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Tehran and Mashhad.
Red Sea Federation
The visit of a high Saudi military delegation to Iran also comes in conjunction with Israel’s accusations of establishing regional security cooperation between Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf of Eilat, on led by the United States.
Israeli reports on Sunday said that military cooperation in the Red Sea is aimed at “protecting maritime interests, oil wells, gas platforms, and strategic assets from the threat of Iran.”
The Israeli news website “Zaman Israel” said that the “threat” from Iran and its allies in Iraq and Yemen led to the establishment of this “regional defense alliance”.
He said that “the main objective of this coalition is to detect regional air threats. “
2024-11-10 22:30:00
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