An Official of Saudi media has hinted that a Saudi delegation will travel to Baghdad on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 to make provisions for the reopening of Saudi embassy in the Iraqi capital for the first time in 25 years.
The two counties who had suffered a strained relationship since the former Iraqi leader, late Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, compelling Saudi Arabia to close its Baghdad embassy in 1990. Saudi had allegedly accused Iraq of being too close to Iran and of encouraging sectarian discrimination against Sunnis, a charge Baghdad denies.
It is believed that the reunion of these two countries could help strengthen a regional alliance against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS militants who have seized territory in Iraq and Syria.
According to the head of the foreign affairs committee on Saudi Arabia’s Shoura Council, Abdullah Al Askar, the Saudi move would help return Iraq to the Arab nation “after an absence since the toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime and the penetration of the Iranian regime into the joints of the Iraqi state,”he told Golf Today
