Lines in the Sand: Iraq, Oman FMs to Visit Tehran

The Foreign Ministers of Iraq and Oman will arrive in Tehran on Wednesday, IRNA reported. Iraq is a majority Shiite state, and Oman has cultivated friendly relations with Iran, apart from the rest of the Gulf states. And so, while Saudi Arabia is lining up the majority of the Gulf states on its side of the balance sheet in its confrontation with the Islamic Republic, so does Iran round up its own subordinates.