Top adviser to #Iran's #Khamenei calls for reopening of #Saudi, Iranian embassies six years after elements in #Basij and #IRGC paramilitaries stormed and burned #KSA missions in #Tehran and #Mashhad. /1
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In Aug 2020, a former Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari accused #Iran government of alienating Arab countries and cited the example of the burning of #Saudi embassy in #Tehran and the Saudi consulate in #Mashhad. /2 
In 2020, #Iran appointed one of the masterminds of the 2016 attack on the #Saudi embassy in #Tehran as the head of the cultural committee of Iran’s Judo Federation. /3
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On the fifth anniversary of the burning of #Saudi embassy in #Tehran, in Jan 2021, #Iran's then FM Zarif tweeted criticizing the #UK but took a swipe at #SaudiArabia as well, likely killing any possibility of a resumption in relations since embassies were closed. /4
In April 2021, then #Iran FM Zarif, in interview with Iranian outlet, appeared to be criticizing #Khamenei-allied #IRGC for the burning of #Saudi embassy in #Tehran, an act he suggested was designed to undermine both him and the #JCPOA talks. /5
Then Pres #Rouhani criticized attack on #Saudi emb; called for end to attacks on embassies in #Iran, but he also flayed execution of a Saudi Shia cleric that Riyadh says was one of a group of sunni+shia extremists involved in terrorism; internal matter. /6
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