On January 2, Saudi Arabia announced that it has executed Sheikh Nimr, among dozens of others.
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Iraq has undertaken a delicate balancing act amid the latest regional turmoil.
On Thursday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Ming is visiting Saudi Arabia and will visit Iran.
The decision at a SAFF executive meeting Thursday comes days after individual clubs refused to travel to Iran for safety reasons when the competition kicks off next month.
Riyadh cut off diplomatic relations with Tehran on Sunday after the attacks.
Iran’s official state broadcaster IRIB said the diplomats have arrived in Tehran, showing pictures of their plane after it landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.
“The boot of a Hashed is worth more than Saudi Arabia”, chanted the crowd which gathered on Tahrir (liberation) square.
“The policies of the Saudi regime will have a domino effect and they will be buried under the avalanche they have created”, the IRGC’s second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency. “The process of provoking tension must be stopped”.
Iranian protesters set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran during a demonstration against the execut …
US Secretary of State John Kerry has made repeated calls to both Iranian and Saudi leaders.
On Wednesday, Jordan summoned the Iranian ambassador in Amman and condemned the attack on Saudi embassy in Tehran, as well as its rejection of Iran’s interference in Arab affairs. Among those is Bahrain, which said Wednesday it had broken up a Shiite militant group backed by the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
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“The Islamic republic reserves the right to pursue its interests in this matter”, he said.
They also chanted “Down with America” and “Death to Israel”, traditional Iranian slogans at protests.
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In July previous year, Tehran agreed to measures to put a nuclear weapon beyond its reach in exchange for sanctions relief.
