King meets with Iran’s Ahmadinejad
On his first official visit to Saudi Arabia, Iran’s president held crucial talks with King Abdullah that are being discussed as a possible means to defuse sectarian tensions in the region and prevent Iran from sliding further into isolation.
The two countries have had chilly relations since the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose nuclear program has made Iran’s Arab neighbors increasingly wary.
They emerged from the talks saying the greatest danger to the “Muslim nation” is the attempt to spread strife between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and that efforts should be made to stop such attempts and close ranks,” the Saudi Press Agency said.
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