An Iranian Foreign Ministry official had a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Tehran to push for the release of two Iranian Hajj pilgrims imprisoned by the kingdom.

According to The Iran Project, in the meeting on Sunday, August 18, the director general of consular affairs at Iran’s Foreign Ministry and the Saudi Ambassador Abdullah al-Anzi discussed the release of two Iranian prisoners in Saudi Arabia.

Highlighting the good relations between the two countries, the Saudi envoy expressed hope that the two Iranian pilgrims would soon return to Iran and their families, the ministry’s website reported.

The Saudi intelligence forces arrested a number of Iranian nationals during this year’s Hajj season. Two of them are still kept in custody in Saudi Arabia.