Iranian Foreign Ministry: No development in talks with Saudi Arabia

The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said yesterday that talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia have not witnessed any development.

Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters in the Iranian capital of Tehran that his country was “waiting to see Riyadh’s will.”

“Tehran would not negotiate the nuclear deal with our neighbouring countries,” Khatibzadeh said, adding that Iran was not planning to discuss “regional files with European countries.”

On Sunday, the Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal Bin Farhan, told France24 that the Kingdom talks with Tehran would “continue,” and that an “additional round of negotiations” between the regional rivals was expected “soon.”

“The four previous rounds of talks were merely exploratory rather than substantial,” Farhan pointed out, stressing that his country wanted to come to a normal relationship with our neighbours, Iran.”

E.M