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2023-09-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Maldives follow Saudi lead in restoring ties with Iran
[IsraelTimes] Move by South Asian archipelagic state, a destination for Israeli tourists which has had intermittent Israel ties, follows talks between Maldives and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
foreign ministers at UN


The Maldives have restored diplomatic relations with Iran, which the Indian Ocean islands broke off seven years ago in support of Soddy Arabia

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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the Iranian foreign ministry said Saturday.

The move, which came in a meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, followed a Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia in March.

Shiite-dominated Iran and Sunni Moslem Saudi Arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their respective embassies following the deal announced in March. Earlier this month, the countries reopened their respective embassies and sent ambassadors, cementing their ties going forward.

Since the March deal, Saudi Arabia also restored ties with Iranian ally Syria and ramped up a push for peace in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, where it has for years led a military coalition against the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
forces.

Iran and Saudi Arabia have backed opposing sides in conflict zones across the Middle East for years.

Riyadh broke off its relations with Tehran in 2016 after protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran following the kingdom’s execution of a leading Shiite holy man.

Several of its allies in the Middle East and beyond followed suit, including the Moslem-majority Maldives and the Horn of Africa state of Djibouti, which also restored its relations with Iran in New York earlier this week.

Maldives and Israel have no formal ties but the state is a tourist destination for Israelis.

The countries once had thriving diplomatic relations. Israel was the third state to recognize the island republic in 1965, and the Israeli ambassador was the first to present his credentials to the Maldives’ president. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
relations were suspended in 1974.

Located in the Indian Ocean, the archipelago nation of roughly 330,000 inhabitants, spread across hundreds of islands, does not tolerate the public practice of any religion other than Islam and does not grant non-Moslems citizenship.

Relations with Israel began improving again in the 1990s. In 2009, then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman and his Maldivian counterpart signed three cooperation agreements in the fields of tourism, health, education and culture, as it appeared relations were again back on track. In 2010, Israeli ophthalmologists visited the country to perform eye operations.

The next year, the Maldives’ then-foreign minister, Ahmed Naseem, became the first bigwig to visit Israel. During his four-day visit, he met with then-president Shimon Peres and Liberman, laid a wreath at Yad Vashem and toured the country.

In 2012, Mohammed Nasheed — the island nation’s first democratically elected president, known for his pro-Israel stance — was deposed in what he calls a political coup. He was replaced by Mohammed Waheed Hassan, who vowed to appoint hardline Islamic conservatives to his cabinet.

In the wake of the 2014 Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war, the Maldives dissolved its agreements with Israel and voted to ban Israeli imports.

In 2020, Maldivian officials denied local reports they were in talks with Israel about reestablishing ties following the signing of the Abraham Accords which normalized ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco.

In January 2022, Israeli diplomats said they expected to soon normalize ties with the Maldives and the Moslem-majority island nation of The Comoros.
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