Iran's Minister of Science, Hossein Sima'i Saraf, was the passenger on the Iranian government plane that landed in Riyadh on Tuesday afternoon, according to N12's Asaf Rozentzweig. The minister arrived to attend the UNESCO AI summit in the Saudi capital. The plane is typically used to transport senior security officials.
Earlier Tuesday afternoon, The Zioneer reported that an Iranian government plane — a model typically used to transport senior security officials — had landed in Riyadh without disclosed passenger details. N12 journalist Asaf Rozentzweig now identifies the passenger as Science Minister Hossein Sima'i Saraf, who arrived to attend the UNESCO AI summit in the Saudi capital. The visit is a diplomatic engagement at a multilateral scientific conference, coming amid broader regional tensions between Iran and Gulf states.
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