Iran is keen to cooperate with Saudi to end Syria, Yemen conflict

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his country’s keenness to cooperate with Saudi Arabia to help end conflict in Syria and Yemen.
The remarks came during World Economic Forum annual meeting currently held in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.
"I do not see any reason why Iran and Saudi Arabia should have hostile policies toward each other. We can, in fact, work together to put an end to miserable conditions of the people in Syria and Yemen and Bahrain and elsewhere in the region," said Zarif.
He added that nearer ties between the two powers may “gain advantage the area as a complete.”
However, Zarif did nevertheless go on to specify some tensions between the two Islamic states, pointing to the 2015 Hajj stampede in which dozens of Iranian pilgrims died, was due, at the very least, to “negligence.”
Iran backs destabilizing forces within the area, such because the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Assad regime which has resulted within the deaths of a whole bunch of hundreds of Syrians since 2011.

Source: AFP