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Iran resumes exports to Saudi Arabia: official
2021-10-18
[Rudaw] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
announced on Sunday that exports to Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
have resumed, its state media reported.

According to the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the country’s Customs Administration's front man Roohollah Latifi said that Saudi Arabia has "rejoined" the list of countries to which Iran exports. He added that in the first half of the Iranian calendar year, which starts March 21, they have exported a total of $22.5 billion worth of goods to 15 countries, IRNA reported.

Iran last week expressed readiness to resume exports to Saudi Arabia provided that bilateral tensions wane, the state-run Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported, adding that exports between Tehran and Riyadh "stopped" as tensions had escalated in recent years.

An Iranian official said in October of last year that exports to Saudi Arabia had reached "zero" in 2020.

Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Theocratic Republic have endured rocky relations since 1979 when Shia revolutionaries came to power in Iran and pledged to export their revolution to the world, including to the Gulf countries. Iran’s support for the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i civil war since late 2014 has caused concerns for the Saudi establishment.

Their relations took a notable dive in 2016, when Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions after the Kingdom executed Shiite holy man Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. They also criticize each other’s nuclear activities.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Friday said the government is serious about talks with Iran as part of their agenda to stabilize the region.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Friday said the government is serious about talks with Iran as part of their agenda to stabilize the region.

Their agenda to stabilize the region lol! Last time that happened the Romans were running things.
Posted by: jpal   2021-10-18 14:43  

#2  Iran has been exporting a lot of drones to Saudi, via the Houthis.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-10-18 12:17  

#1  Say what you will about the Saudis, their sense of which way the wind is blowing is excellent.
Posted by: Tom   2021-10-18 11:03  

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