“Undoubtedly, such actions can’t cover up that big crime”.
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Saudi Arabia has been rallying Sunni allies to its side in a growing diplomatic row with Iran, deepening a sectarian split across the Middle East following its execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric. De Mistura has set a 25 January target date for a fourth round of talks.
Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Will this affect Iran nuclear or Syria peace talks? By late Sunday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced the kingdom would sever its relations with Iran over the assaults, giving Iranian diplomatic personnel 48 hours to leave his country.
“Egypt has not had diplomatic relations with Iran for more than three decades”.
Saudi Arabia severed ties and demanded Sunday that Iranian diplomatic staff leave the country in 48 hours.
He said Riyadh is “appalled” at the failure of Iranian authorities to prevent the attacks.
Kuwait’s announcement, which was carried on the state-run Kuwait News Agency on Tuesday, did not elaborate or say how the Kuwait-Iran diplomatic ties would be affected. Since then, Iranians have attacked several embassies in Tehran including those of Kuwait in 1987, Saudi Arabia in 1988, Denmark in 2006 and Britain in 2011. Demonstrations against the al-Nimr execution and Saudi Arabia are also being called for in the predominantly Shiite southern cities on Monday. In October, Bahrain ordered the acting Iranian charge d’affaires to leave within 72 hours and recalled its own ambassador after alleging Iran sponsored “subversion” and “terrorism” and funneled arms to militants. This was followed by a wave of protests all over the region with the widespread anger resonating across the Shia community, including Pakistan with hundreds of men, women and children coming out to protest in Quetta, Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, not only calling for the United Nations to take notice of Shia targeting by the Saudi rulership through a gross human rights violation but also calling on Pakistan’s leadership to redefine its longstanding ties with SA, condemned as a U.S. stooge in the light of current events.
The Swiss ministry, in a statement dated on Monday, said that “these mass executions risk reviving the confessional tensions which have already caused far too many victims in this region of the world”.
The secretary-general has previously said the death penalty “has no place in the 21st century”, and has urged a worldwide moratorium on its use.
It stressed the importance of doing everything to lower those tensions and “avoid provocations”.
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The Swiss move comes after Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others.
