🔻 Iraqi Prime Minister says Saudi Arabia invited him to visit this country

The office of the Iraqi prime minister said on Friday that Saudi Arabia has again invited Ali Zaydi, the prime minister, to travel to Riyadh. The invitation was apparently made during today’s meeting between Ali Zaydi and Khalid bin Ali Al-Humaydān, head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence apparatus, in Baghdad.

The invitation was announced as Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces said that their response to the deadly attacks carried out last month by the United States and Saudi Arabia against Iraq would be postponed.

Mr. Zaydi was scheduled to travel to Riyadh in late July of last year, but the trip was canceled due to attacks by the United States and Saudi Arabia on a number of Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) sites in Iraq on July 29.

The attack resulted in the deaths of 20 people, including five Iranians.