Saudi foreign minister Adel al Jubeir said all Iran’s diplomats had been given 48 hours to leave the country and he claimed Riyadh would not allow the Islamic Republic to undermine the kingdom’s security.
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The Saudi embassy in Tehran was set on fire on early Sunday by protesters in response to Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and activist, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimrits.
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Amnesty International criticised Nimr’s arrest for being part of a campaign by the Saudi authorities to quash all dissent. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was “deeply dismayed” by the executions and called again for an end to the death penalty.
NPR’s Peter Kenyon reports that Iran’s supreme leader promised divine retribution while Iran’s president condemned both the execution and the subsequent storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran on Saturday.
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Saudi Arabia’s execution on Saturday of 47 prisoners, including an influential Shiite cleric, threatened to further damage Sunni-Shiite relations in a regional struggle playing out across the Middle East between the kingdom and its regional foe Iran.
“Mohammed Taqi al-Mudaresi, another cleric who is based in the holy Shiite city of Karbala, took a harder line”.
According to the Iranian Republican News Agency (IRNA), the Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned Saudi Arabia’s charge d’affaires in Tehran and strongly condemned al-Nimr’s execution.
She says in Saudi Arabia, defendants are not provided defence lawyers, and in numerous cases of South Asians arrested for drug trafficking they are not provided translators in court hearings.
But while some crimes, such as premeditated murder, may carry fixed punishments under Saudi Arabia’s interpretation of the Islamic law, or Shariah, drug-related offences are considered “ta’zir”, meaning neither the crime nor the punishment is defined in Islam.
Saudis imagined that by indiscriminate bombardment, they will make people of Yemen surrender in a short period of time, but despite lapse of about nine months wanton aggression on Yemeni national sovereignty, the Yemeni nation proved that they are qualified to be called champion of the Arab and Muslim World nations. Forty-four people were arrested, prosecutors said. Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of supporting “terrorism” in part because it backs Syrian rebel groups, while Riyadh points to Iran’s support for the Lebanese Hezbollah and other Shiite militant groups in the region.
The demonstrations highlighted fury over the killing of Nimr, a Saudi Shiite who spent more than a decade studying theology at Iran’s seminaries.
But Saudi Arabia’s Western allies, many of whom supply it with arms, are growing concerned about its new assertiveness.
The incidents came after the United States and European Union expressed alarm at the executions, with Washington warning Riyadh risked “exacerbating sectarian tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced”.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier said: “The unjustly spilled blood of this oppressed martyr will no doubt soon show its effect and divine vengeance will befall Saudi politicians”.
But she expected that his execution would “add to Saudi-Iranian polarisation”.
After the executions, Islamic State urged its supporters to attack Saudi soldiers and police in revenge, in a message on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service used by the group’s backers, the SITE monitoring group reported.
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Several hundred people gathered outside the building again on Sunday afternoon.
