Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — statement during his Tehran visit, ~17 Jun 2023 (post-rapprochement; per Gulf Research Center): Saudi–Iran cooperation on regional security, maritime-navigation security, and a region free of weapons of mass destruction. [Second doc — distinct SAUDI–IRAN DÉTENTE / regional-de-escalation axis, vs his existing Israel-normalization-conditionality doc.]

I would like to refer to the importance of cooperation between the two countries on regional security, especially the security of maritime navigation, and the importance of cooperation among all regional countries to ensure that it is free of weapons of mass destruction.

[SECOND DOCUMENT for Prince Faisal bin Farhan, covering a DISTINCT regional axis from his existing one (the July 2025 UN statement that Saudi normalisation with Israel is conditioned on a Palestinian state — i.e. the Israel-normalization axis). This document is the SAUDI–IRAN axis: the 2023 China-brokered rapprochement and de-escalation. Source: his statement during his June 2023 visit to Tehran — the first by a Saudi FM in years, following the March 2023 restoration of ties — as reproduced in a Gulf Research Center commentary by GRC chairman Dr Abdulaziz Sager (dated 20 June 2023); original Arabic; tier-2; quote confirmed verbatim against the fetched page (GRC's "Fasial" is a typo in their text, not in the quoted words); the quote's terminal comma (before "Prince Faisal stated") is rendered here as a period; published_date set to the 17 June 2023 visit. A second candidate phrase ("stressed the necessity of non-interference in internal affairs") was ambiguously attributed in the source and is NOT included.] A distinct declared position of Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister on the Kingdom's pragmatic DÉTENTE with Iran. Marking the first visit by a Saudi FM to Tehran in years after the China-brokered restoration of diplomatic relations, Faisal framed the new relationship around cooperative REGIONAL SECURITY rather than confrontation: "the importance of cooperation between the two countries on regional security, especially the security of maritime navigation, and the importance of cooperation among all regional countries to ensure that it is free of weapons of mass destruction." This is the de-escalation / good-neighborliness pole of Saudi foreign policy toward Iran — dialogue and shared regional-security management (Gulf maritime security, a WMD-free region) in place of the prior rivalry — distinct from the Kingdom's separate posture on Israel normalization. [Axes: regional alignment / Saudi–Iran rivalry (rapprochement and de-escalation with Iran; dialogue over confrontation), regional security architecture (cooperative Gulf maritime-navigation security; a region free of weapons of mass destruction), foreign-policy posture (diplomacy-first; multilateral regional cooperation). NOTE: a declared-position document — Faisal's stated position as reported, scoped to the Saudi–Iran détente axis his existing document does not cover.]