File photo : A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Riyadh . AFP
"Fayyad al-Ruwaili, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia, will travel to Iran at the head of a high-ranking military delegation" on Sunday, the local Tasnim news agency said.
He is scheduled to meet with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Bagheri in an effort to bolster "defence ties" between the countries, it reported.
Bagheri had declared Iran's readiness to improve military relations with Saudi Arabia in a phone call with the Saudi defence minister in November 2023, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported at the time.
In March 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia resumed relations under a surprise China-brokered deal.
Tehran and Riyadh had severed ties in 2016 after Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran were attacked during protests over Riyadh's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
In October, Saudi Arabia announced that it had held war games with Iran and other countries in the Sea of Oman.
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