Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, has formally invited Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the leader of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to Tehran in the near future, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday.
President Raisi invites UAE president: For the first time since 2016, Iran appointed an ambassador to the UAE in April, as relations between Iran and the Gulf states changed.
After strikes in Gulf waters and on Saudi oil sites, the UAE, which has had business and trading connections with Iran for more than a century, started re-engaging with Tehran in 2019.
Iran’s principal gateway to the outside world has traditionally been the emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.