The Iranian government has announced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Saudi Arabia Saturday for a rare meeting with King Abdullah. It will be Ahmadinejad’s first state visit to Saudi Arabia amid a time of increasing tensions with the U.S. Meanwhile, in Madrid Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki renewed calls for negotiations.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki: “We should be allowed back to the negotiating table to put forward our arguments before the media and the people. The U.S. reasoning that they can have nuclear weapons and others can’t have nuclear energy is not valid.”