In the UAE, the Foreign Ministry summoned Iran’s ambassador, Mohammad Reza Fayyad, to protest at Iranian intervention in Saudi Arabia’s sovereign affairs and the attacks on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Tehran and Mashhad.
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Mr Jubeir said Saudi Arabia would not let Iran undermine its security, accusing it of having “distributed weapons and planted terrorist cells in the region”. Adel al-Jubeir expelled Iranian diplomats, giving them forty-eight hours to evacuate the country.
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The Middle East minister said he expected the kingdom’s government not to carry out the death sentence imposed on the cleric’s nephew Ali al-Nimr, who was just 17 when he was told he faced crucifixion over his role in the Arab Spring protests in 2012.
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But on Sunday Jubeir said those executed had received “fair and transparent” trials and were convicted of carrying out “terrorist operations that led to the deaths of innocents”.
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, said Saturday that he was “deeply dismayed” by the execution of al-Nimr and the other men after “trials that raised serious concerns over the nature of the charges and the fairness of the process”.
However, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Shia cleric had been executed for his opposition to Saudi Arabia’s Sunni rulers. Iran also has backed Shiite rebels in Yemen known as Houthis.
On Sunday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Saudi Arabia would face “divine retribution.” “The only thing he did was public criticism”.
The cleric’s execution could also complicate Saudi Arabia’s relationship with the Shiite-led government in Iraq.
Saudi Arabia and Iran will no longer be diplomatically tied after protesters, upset by a cleric’s execution, set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
“It is unjustifiable”, he said in a statement.
Flames rise from Saudi Arabia’s embassy during a demonstration in Tehran on January 2.
Western powers sought to calm the tensions.
He added that the attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran was deliberate and that the contents of the embassy were destroyed.
“Saudi Arabia formally breaks diplomatic ties with Iran”, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group, noted on Twitter.
A Saudi Arabian man was shot dead in the kingdom’s Eastern Province late on Sunday when security officers came under fire from an unidentified source, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
Saudi executions have been at all time high since the session of King Salman past year.
In Bahrain, police used water cannons and fired birdshot at demonstrators on Sitra Island, south of the capital, Manama, wounding some.
He directly criticized the Al Saud ruling family for its domestic policies and forcefully spoke out against individual royal family members.
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But Ben Rich, researcher of Saudi politics at the University of New England, said Australia would likely keep turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.
