Étiqueté : pivot

In December 1991, then-Iran’s President Hashemi Rafsanjani and Saudi Arabia’s then-Crown Prince King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud met on the sideline of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Senegal. In a rare diplomatic gambit, the two agreed to hold talks on restoring ties that crippled for years following the Iran-Iraq War and the deaths of…