March 6, 2024 - Top Iranian and Saudi security officials met in Beijing on March 10, 2023 to begin a new chapter in bilateral affairs following sky-high tensions. The neighbors in the Persian Gulf signed a deal to restore full-fledged diplomatic ties and reactivate ...

December 9, 2025 - Iran, China and Saudi Arabia held a trilateral meeting in Tehran on Tuesday, the third since their 2023 normalization agreement brokered in Beijing, state media reported.

December 9, 2025 - The third meeting of the China-Iran-Saudi Arabia Trilateral Joint Committee was held in Tehran on December 9, 2025, to follow up on the implementation of the Beijing Agreement.

June 23, 2023 - On March 10, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced the normalization of ties brokered by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with a joint trilateral statement citing that an agreement has been reached between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

March 11, 2023 - WASHINGTON — Finally, there is a peace deal of sorts in the Middle East. Not between Israel and the Arabs, but between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which have been at each other’s throats for decades. And brokered not by the United States but by China.

On 10 March 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced an agreement, mediated by China, “to resume diplomatic relations between Riyadh and Tehran and re-open their embassies and missions”. Its terms included respect for “the sovereignty of ...

October 4, 2023 - Iran will cease supplying Houthi rebels with arms and persuade them to halt their missile attacks on Saudi Arabia. In addition, the deal calls for enhanced economic and diplomatic ties between Iran and the GCC countries, and for Iran and its Arab partners to begin discussions on building a new regional security framework. Moreover, China will continue to oversee all of these steps.

March 27, 2023 - In addition, Iran asked Saudi Arabia to ease the pressure on the country’s Shiite minority and allow members to visit the Iranian Shiite holy city of Mashhad. SNSC Secretary Shamkhani visited Beijing on March 5 to finalize the terms of the agreement in trilateral meetings with Chinese State Councilor and former Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Saudi National Security Advisor Musaed bin Mohammed al-Aiban. The agreement has the potential to help de-escalate regional conflicts, especially in Yemen, and indicates China’s desire to play a more active role as an international mediator.

November 20, 2024 - The second meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia-Iran Trilateral Joint Committee was held in Riyadh on November 19, 2024, to follow up on the implementation of the Beijing Agreement. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Eng.

China has become the largest importer of the Iranian oil since 2017 and used subterfuge to help Iran sell its oil abroad despite US sanctions. China is also the largest single importer of the Saudi oil (more than one third of Saudi annual ...

April 7, 2023 - A Nation Must Think Before it Acts ... nation must think before it acts. ... In early March 2023, China mediated an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to normalize diplomatic relations....

May 13, 2025 - On Friday, March 10, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced their agreement to reestablish diplomatic relations based on talks held in Beijing. China has portrayed itself as the broker of the agreement, and China’s senior diplomat congratulated the ...

March 13, 2023 - An agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to reestablish diplomatic relations has cast China in a leading role in Middle Eastern politics — a part previously reserved for longtime global heavyweights like the U.S. and Russia.

September 11, 2023 - After seven years of severed diplomatic relations, the China-brokered renormalization deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, signed on March 10, marked a major breakthrough in the Middle East’s shift toward de-escalation between regional rivals.

This article aims to approach China’s role through seeing Beijing’s economic influence in the region as the basis on which it was able to play a mediating role. ... The agreement brokered between Iran and Saudi Arabia in March 2023, facilitated ...

April 28, 2023 - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (left) and Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud exchange documents after signing a memorandum of understanding in Beijing on April 6. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (left) and Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud exchange documents after signing a memorandum of understanding in Beijing on April 6. Iranian Foreign Ministry/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images ... The China-brokered agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia announced last month generated huge buzz, with some observers going as far as proclaiming it a victory for international security.

March 16, 2023 - Iran and Saudi Arabia announced last Friday a Chinese-brokered deal to restore relations. After decades of enmity and a formal cutting of ties in 2016, the rapprochement has been touted as a momentous development in the region.

December 6, 2025 - On 8 April 2023, Saudi officials arrived in Iran to further advance the reopening of their respective diplomatic missions. The deal brokered by the People's Republic of China (PRC), known as the 'Beijing Agreement', a month earlier ended the diplomatic rift between the two nations "to bring security and stability to the turbulent Gulf region", according to the statement.

August 1, 2023 - In talks sponsored by China, with important earlier assistance from Iraq and Oman, the two countries struck a bargain that promises to lower what had been rising tensions between the two countries.