Enemy of my Enemy: Iranian and Saudi FMs Shake Hands at Al-Aqsa (Temple Mount) Crisis Meeting

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Enemy of my Enemy: Iranian and Saudi FMs Shake Hands at Al-Aqsa Crisis Meeting
Published August 2nd, 2017 - 08:22 GMT via SyndiGate.info

The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran have shaken hands at a meeting of the main grouping of the world's Muslim nations despite the rival nations being locked in a bitter feud, the ISNA news agency has reported citing state television.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif greeted each other on Tuesday at an extraordinary meeting in Istanbul of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on recent tensions in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The two ministers held brief talks on the sidelines of the meeting with Zarif explaining that the move was within "diplomatic conventions" and a sign of his "mutual respect and long-standing friendship with Jubeir", the news agency reported.

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