UAE upgrades ties with Iran, envoy to resume duties

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The upgrading of ties between the two countries follows Kuwait's appointment of a new ambassador to Iran on 14 August for the first time since 2016.
58% :UAE national security adviser Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahayan, brother of the country's leader Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, is understood to have laid the groundwork for the rapprochement with Iran during a visit to Tehran in December last year.
55% : The UAE plans to reinstate its ambassador to Iran more than six years after it downgraded ties with Tehran.
55% : The UAE's ambassador to Iran, Saif Mohammed Al Zaabi, "will resume his duties in the coming days", the UAE foreign ministry said on Sunday, adding that the ambassador's reinstatement aims "to contribute to further advancing bilateral relations ... to achieve the common interests of the two countries and the wider region".
53% : Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia has also been working to cool tensions with Iran in a series of talks mediated by Iraq's caretaker prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
45% : Several of Iran's Mideast Gulf neighbours are attempting to walk a tightrope by containing tensions with Iran while at the same time rolling back Tehran's regional influence.
37% : A renewed agreement would signal an end to US and EU sanctions on Tehran, paving the way for a substantial increase in Iranian crude exports.
25% : The downgrading of diplomatic ties between Iran and some of its neighbours in 2016 stemmed from crowds storming two Saudi diplomatic missions in Tehran to protest against the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
11% : Relations later deteriorated, with Tehran perceiving that Saudi Arabia and the UAE supported former US president Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign against Iran and Washington's exit from the nuclear deal.

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