An Iranian embassy official in Riyadh told the agency Kharazi welcomed the invitation from his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal as-Saud to take part in the forum on the situation in Iraq.

Iran, which fought an eight-year war with Saddam's regime resulting in the death of more than one million lives on both sides, maintained a policy of "active neutrality" during the coalition war on Iraq.

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