Iranian protesters early yesterday stormed the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran and Shiite Muslim Iran’s top leader predicted “divine vengeance” over Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticizing Saudi Arabia for the second straight day over al-Nimr’s execution, said politicians in the kingdom would face divine retribution for his death.
He also said the attack in Tehran was in line with earlier Iranian assaults on foreign embassies, part of what he called Iran’s destabilizing regional polices. Cleric al-Nimr was a major force behind the 2011 protests in the east of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, where the Shiite minority there complains of marginalization. Iran and Saudi Arabia also support opposing sides in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia has been launching airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels since March. “The only thing he did was public criticism”.
There have also been outbreaks of unrest in Bahrain, where demonstrators took to the streets, and in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad, where the Saudi consulate was the scene of protests. No Saudi embassy staff was inside the building in Tehran as protestorS trashed the offices. He was convicted of terrorism charges but denied advocating violence.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned Sheikh al-Nimr’s execution, saying on Sunday the cleric ‘neither invited people to take up arms nor hatched covert plots.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian conveyed the strong protest of Islamic republic to the Saudi envoy, Ahmed al-Muwallid, over what he called the “irresponsible behaviour’ of the Saudi officials in this regard, according to the state TV”.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply dismayed” by Saudi Arabia’s execution, a spokesman said Saturday.
UK Treasury minister David Gauke said capital punishment was “wrong” and the ties between the UK and Riyadh meant “we can tell them what we think”. The Guard said in a statement that Saudi Arabia’s “medieval act of savagery” in putting al-Nimir death will lead to the “downfall” of the monarchy.
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