Iran nominated an ambassador to the UAE for the first time since 2016 as Gulf nations and Tehran realigned.
The UAE upgraded ties and returned its ambassador to Iran in August.
As Iranian demonstrators stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran in January 2016, Saudi Arabia broke ties with Iran.
Last month, Riyadh declared it would re-establish relations with Tehran in a China-brokered pact, ending years of antagonism that had undermined Gulf peace and fueled wars from Yemen to Syria.
After strikes on Gulf seas and Saudi oil sites in 2019, the UAE resumed trading with Iran, something it had done for over a century.
Iran’s primary international link is Dubai, UAE.
Iranian state media said Reza Ameri, Iran’s new ambassador, was the foreign ministry’s expatriate director general.
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