Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says regional challenges ‘necessitate coordination’.
Qatar’s emir has held talks with Iran’s president in Tehran amid excessive tensions within the area, kicking off a state go to that’s anticipated to incorporate a gathering with the nation’s supreme chief.
“It’s my pleasure to go to Iran immediately in a time the place the area is witnessing lots of challenges and developments that necessitate coordination,” stated Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at a joint information briefing with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday.
Pezeshkian stated that the international locations have sturdy relations, and maintain “related viewpoints relating to the area and worldwide points”.
The assembly comes as tensions stay excessive throughout the area, with fragile ceasefires holding following months of warfare in Lebanon and Gaza and a transitional authorities in place in Syria following the removal of President Bashar al-Assad.
The leaders mentioned “the unity of the Syrian territories and the participation of all classes in Syria to find out their future”, Sheikh Tamim stated.
Pezeshkian stated that Iran thanked Qatar for its mediation efforts in securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza after 15 months of Israel’s warfare there.
The leaders additionally mentioned increasing financial ties.
“We confirmed the need of exploring extra probabilities within the discipline of the economic system and commerce between our each international locations,” Sheikh Tamim stated.
Tohid Asadi, a professor of politics on the College of Tehran, stated the assembly was “critically essential”.
“We heard the 2 leaders put an emphasis on the need of peace within the area [and] on the need of increasing [economic] ties,” Asadi stated.
Sheikh Tamim was anticipated to satisfy later with Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s non secular chief and its highest authority, Asadi stated.
