AL chief Nabil al-Arabi urged the Arab countries to adopt a strong and clear common position and called on Iran to stop interference in the affairs of Arab nations.
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The President said he had instructed Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi to prepare the envoys to arrive in Saudi Arabia and Iran by early next week.
He also said that Russian Federation regrets execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia, but considers an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran absolutely unacceptable.
The executions have sent large number of Iranians onto the street, while some of them stormed Saudi diplomatic missions in capital Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashhad. Besides, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain completely terminated air services with Iran.
But the announcement came just days after back-to-back visits by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and Defence Minister, also the Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, to goad Islamabad to play a more proactive role in the new alliance.
Riyadh officials, on the other hand, “not only continue to impede normalization but are determined to drag the entire region into confrontation”, he charged, accusing “the Saudi government or its surrogates” of attacking Iranian diplomats in Lebanon, Pakistan and Yemen, harassing its nationals traveling to Mecca, and inciting violence against Shiite Muslims.
“Iran doesn’t have qualms and doesn’t hesitate to using the sectarian card as a way to dominate the region, and interfering in the internal affairs of Arab countries”, Al Nahyan said at the opening ceremony.
Iran s signing of a deal with world powers over its nuclear programme a year ago sparked deep concern in Saudi Arabia, a key USA ally, that its longtime rival was emerging from worldwide isolation.
Nimr was executed in Saudi Arabia last week alongside 46 other people on terrorism charges.
Writing in The New York Times, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Tehran is determined to act against the attackers.
Among them were four Shia Muslims, including prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimr, whose death triggered a diplomatic crisis between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia-dominated Iran. “In Iran I got the same assurance”, he said.
Putin underscored that Russian Federation is ready, if necessary, to take part in the resolution of the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Officials believe there are more than 1,000 supporters of the hardline Sunni group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in Indonesia (ISIS), and say that scores of Indonesian ISIS activists have returned from the Middle East.
