Iran is ready to restore relations with Saudi Arabia "at any time," Al Jazeera TV reported Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian saying on Thursday.
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Amirabdollahian called ongoing dialogue with Saudi Arabia positive and constructive," and said that Iran's representatives to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation would return to Jeddah within days.
The Iranian official also said he believed in the importance of a broad regional dialogue that included Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey.
While there was no official Saudi response to the foreign minister's remarks on Thursday, Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Waleed Bukhari on Thursday called Iran-backed Hezbollah a threat to Arab security after Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah called the Saudi king a "terrorist."
The latest exchange of insults follows a crisis between Lebanon and Gulf Arab states over the war in Yemen, and Saudi accusations that Hezbollah was meddling in the conflict.
"Riyadh hopes that the political parties will give priority to the supreme interest of Lebanon... and end Hezbollah's terrorist hegemony over every aspect of the state," Bukhari said in a statement to AFP.
"Hezbollah's terrorist activities and regional military behavior threaten Arab national security," he added.
Bukhari's statement comes after Nasrallah, in a speech earlier this week, described King Salman as a "terrorist" and accused Saudi Arabia of exporting Islamic extremism.
i24NEWS contributed to this report
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