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Kerry calls Iranian, Saudi FM to urge calm

Published: 05 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am | Last Updated: 09 Nov 2021 - 08:52 pm
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Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry called the Iranian and Saudi Arabian foreign ministers on Monday to urge calm after the dramatic breakdown of relations between Tehran and Riyadh.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, US officials said he reached out to his counterparts Mohammad Javad Zarif and Adel Al-Jubeir as the crisis triggered by the Saudi execution of a Shiite cleric threatens to escalate.

AFP