TEHRAN Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi is expected in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for talks on regional developments, a newspaper reported Thursday.

The visit will be the first by a senior Iranian official since the two gulf powers signed an April 17 security pact in Tehran to fight drug trafficking and terrorism.

Kharrazi will hold talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal "on developments in the Arab and Islamic worlds and relations between the two nations," **** Al-Yom **** newspaper said.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected U.S. charges of involvement in a 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen and injured 500 more.