Interesting Development in ME: Al-Sadr meets Bin Salman

JEDDAH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met on Sunday with Iraq’s influential Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr, who is on a rare visit to the Kingdom. Crown Prince Mohammed received Al-Sadr at his office in Jeddah and the two “reviewed Saudi-Iraqi relations and a number of issues of mutual interest,” said the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Al-Sadr was met at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah by Thamer Al-Sabhan, the kingdom’s former ambassador to Iraq and its first to be assigned to Baghdad after a 25-year break. Al-Sabhan was…

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