Jan Kerry Talk on Saudi and Iran Diplomatic
US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken repeatedly in the last day to Saudi and Iranian officials to encourage dialogue and plans to call other officials in the region, the US State Department said on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran on Sunday after Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran one day after the Saudi execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric and 46 others on terrorism charges. The estrangement between Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite-majority Iran, regional rivals, threatens to undermine Kerry's efforts to broker a peace agreement to end the nearly five-year Syrian civil war.