Iranian Official Says Saudi Trade Delegation to Visit Tehran Soon

Mehdi Safari. (Fars News Agency)
Mehdi Safari. (Fars News Agency)
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Iranian Official Says Saudi Trade Delegation to Visit Tehran Soon

Mehdi Safari. (Fars News Agency)
Mehdi Safari. (Fars News Agency)

A Saudi trade delegation will visit Iran soon to attend a business exhibition, said Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari on Wednesday.

Running from May 7-10, Iran Expo 2023 is an exhibition focused on Iranian export potential and sponsored by the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran and the Ministry of Industry, Mining, and Trade.

"In the next few days, a trade delegation from Saudi Arabia will come to Iran accompanied by a deputy minister to attend the Iran Expo exhibition," Reuters quoted Safari as telling Iranian media.

In a mediated agreement brokered by China, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced on March 10 their decision to restore diplomatic ties and reopen their respective embassies and consulates within two months at most.

This development was broadly welcomed by the Arab world and the international community.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani announced that Iranian missions in Saudi Arabia have taken their first steps to resume diplomatic activity in the Kingdom.



Fire at Liquefied Gas Site in Iran Reportedly Under Control

Iranians walk past a billboard with the pictures of late IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani (C), late Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Yahya Sinwar (R), and late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah (2-R), and the head of Hezbollah's executive council Hashem Safieddine (2-L), and a sentence reading in Persian 'God wrote our duty, to help the oppressed' at the Enghelab square in Tehran, Iran, 21 January 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranians walk past a billboard with the pictures of late IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani (C), late Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Yahya Sinwar (R), and late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah (2-R), and the head of Hezbollah's executive council Hashem Safieddine (2-L), and a sentence reading in Persian 'God wrote our duty, to help the oppressed' at the Enghelab square in Tehran, Iran, 21 January 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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Fire at Liquefied Gas Site in Iran Reportedly Under Control

Iranians walk past a billboard with the pictures of late IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani (C), late Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Yahya Sinwar (R), and late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah (2-R), and the head of Hezbollah's executive council Hashem Safieddine (2-L), and a sentence reading in Persian 'God wrote our duty, to help the oppressed' at the Enghelab square in Tehran, Iran, 21 January 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranians walk past a billboard with the pictures of late IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani (C), late Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Yahya Sinwar (R), and late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah (2-R), and the head of Hezbollah's executive council Hashem Safieddine (2-L), and a sentence reading in Persian 'God wrote our duty, to help the oppressed' at the Enghelab square in Tehran, Iran, 21 January 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Firefighters have brought under control a fire at a liquefied gas site in Rey City south of Tehran, the Ministry of Oil's news outlet SHANA reported on Wednesday, adding there were no casualties.

"An incident took place in one of the depots of Rey's liquefied gas storage facility, not at the oil storage facility," Keramat Veiskarami, CEO of Iran's National Petroleum Products Distribution Company, told SHANA, referring to earlier news reports.

According to Reuters, Veiskarami said information regarding the cause of the incident would be released later.

Rey is located 11 kilometers south of Tehran.