Iran set to reopen embassy in Saudi Arabia ending 7 years of closure

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : BEIRUT -- Iran will reopen its diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, months after the two countries signed a China-brokered agreement to restore ties after a seven-year rupture.
49% : Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran have ebbed and flowed since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
40% : In response, protesters raided the Saudi and Kuwaiti embassies in Tehran.
40% : The dispute reached its peak in 2011 at the onset of the Syrian civil war after Iran intervened in Syria in favor of President Bashar al-Assad.
34% : The following year, Riyadh severed ties with Tehran.
30% : Saudi Arabia, leading a military coalition of several countries, intervened in neighboring Yemen in 2015 after repeatedly accusing Iran of arming the Houthi rebels and threatening the kingdom's security.
24% : In 2016, Saudi Arabia once again cut diplomatic ties with Iran after protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran in response to the execution of dissident Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in the Gulf kingdom.

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