Kuwait names first ambassador to Iran in over six years

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Iran already has an ambassador in Kuwait.
58% : The United Arab Emirates is working to send an ambassador to Iran as it seeks to rebuild bridges following years of animosity, a senior Emirati official said last month.
56% : Kuwait's foreign ministry confirmed Munaikh was appointed envoy to Iran.
55% : This picture taken on September 20, 2020 shows a Kuwaiti national flag flying from a mast in Kuwait City [YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images]Kuwait has appointed an ambassador to Iran, both countries said on Sunday, more than six years after recalling its top envoy to Tehran in solidarity with Saudi Arabia after it severed ties with the Islamic Republic in 2016, Reuters reports.
55% : Kuwait has maintained relatively good relations with Tehran under a foreign policy balancing ties with its larger neighbours.
52% : Ambassador Bader Abdullah Al-Munaikh handed his credentials to Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in Tehran on Saturday, Iran's foreign ministry said on its website.
52% :Saudi Arabia launched direct talks with Iran last year.
49% : Kuwait recalled its envoy to Iran as other Gulf Arab states downgraded ties to rally behind Riyadh.
21% : Iran Supreme Leader: Israel is getting weaker as Palestinian resistance gets strongerRiyadh broke off ties with Tehran in January 2016 after Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Iran after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shia cleric.

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