Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the start of a new era for his country's relations with the Arab world.

He thanked President Donald Trump and his team for their role on said Israeli and Sudanese delegations would soon meet to discuss cooperation over quote, agriculture, trade in other areas important to our citizens.

But other parties were less enthusiastic.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday described it as phony on accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington, removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.

President Trump announced last week he would take Sudan off the list once it had deposited $335 million it had pledged to pay in compensation.

Khartoum has since placed the funds in a special escrow account.

The announcement of the U.

S brokered deal comes less than two weeks before President Trump faces voters in an election trumps aides view his pro Israel policies, is appealing to Christian evangelical voters who are among his biggest supporters.

Palestinians, also unhappy with Sudan's decision, lamented the deal is a new stab in the back on say Arab countries have set back the course of peace by abandoning a long standing demand that Israel give up land for a Palestinian states before it can receive recognition.

Sudan follows the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, who both reached normalization agreements with Israel last month.