A ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency accused Tehran of “blind sectarianism” and said that “by its defence of terrorist acts” Iran is a “partner in their crimes in the entire region”.
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Late Sunday, Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran, and Matthiesen believes that the sheikh’s influence after death may be much greater than it was when he was alive. “They can be the aggrieved party”, says Mohamad Bazzi, a professor at New York University who is writing a book on the Saudi/Iran proxy wars in the region.
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“Clearly this raises serious questions that we have to raise directly with the Saudi government”, Clinton said in response to a Derry town hall question about how she would handle the situation as president.
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In the U.S, the State Department is calling on the Iranian government to protect the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and on both Saudi Arabia and Iran to avoid escalating regional Sunni-Shiite tensions.
Nimr s execution was widely condemned elsewhere by major Western powers, and the United States on Sunday called on Middle East countries to take “affirmative steps” to calm tensions.
Saudi Arabia and Iran back opposing parties and groups in Syria and Iraq and are on opposite sides of the devastating conflict in Yemen.
That attack came after Saturday’s execution of al-Nimr, a fervent dissident against the Sunni Muslim Saudi royal family who called for their deposal during the Arab spring uprisings in 2011.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the deputy head of the Saudi mission in Tehran to protest the execution. Already on Saturday there were public calls for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to shut the embassy down again.
When news of the execution broke, Iranian protesters gathered in front of the embassy, some throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, the AP reported.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani condemned Saudi Arabia’s mass execution, but also criticized protesters for damaging the property, vowing to identify and prosecute them.
Of its embassy was attacked.
“Enough is enough”, said a person authorized to convey Saudi thinking on the condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said that Saudi Arabia will face “divine vengeance” for the execution of the Shiite cleric.
The cleric had been a critic of Sunni-led monarchy in Bahrain.
His execution, along with three other Shi’ites and 43 members of Al-Qaeda, sparked angry protests in the Qatif region in eastern Saudi Arabia, where demonstrators denounced the ruling Al Saud dynasty, and in the nearby Gulf kingdom of Bahrain.
Authorities shot al-Nimr in the leg during the arrest, and his family said that he had been denied proper treatment for his wounds during his imprisonment – much of which Amnesty said was spent in solitary confinement.
“After years of imprisonment and torture, Saudi Arabia executed top Shi’a cleric Sheikh Nimr in Saudi Arabia”.
“Iran’s regime has no shame as it rants on human rights matters, even after it executed hundreds of Iranians previous year without a clear legal basis”, said the statement.
“Saudi Arabia sees not only its interests but also its existence in pursuing crises and confrontations and attempts to resolve its internal problems by exporting them to the outside”, said ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari.
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Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani described the executions as an “unjust aggression”. Last month, Saudi Arabia convened a meeting of Syrian opposition figures that was designed to create a delegation to attend peace talks with the Syrian government that are supposed to begin in mid-January.
