“The divine hand of revenge will take the Saudi politicians by the throat”, Khamenei, Iran’s highest authority, said on Sunday.
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Mr Khamenei added: “This oppressed cleric did not encourage people to join an armed movement, nor did he engage in secret plotting, and he only voiced public criticism… based on religious fervour”.
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The execution of prominent Shi’ite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr will mark the end of Saudi Arabia’s government, says Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq’s former prime minister and a prominent politician with ties to Iran.
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A small group stormed the premises and several people were arrested, Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedinia told the state-run Islamic Students’ News Agency.
The two regional powers are on opposite sides of Middle East conflicts from Syria to Yemen.
Saudi foreign ministry spokesman Mansur al-Turki called Iran’s reaction “irresponsible”, and Riyadh summoned Tehran’s envoy in protest.
The cleric was one of 47 executed across Saudi Arabia on Saturday for terrorism-related offences.
Some of the attacks happened between 2003 and 2006.
Nimr, the most vocal critic of the dynasty among the Shi’ite minority, had come to be seen as a leader of the sect’s younger activists, who had exhausted of the failure of older, more measured leaders to achieve equality with Sunnis.
I congratulate and condole over the martyrdom of the great scholar Sheikh Baqir Nimr al-Nimr to Imam Mahdi (PBUH), the Leader as well as all Muslims.
Shiites make up 10 to 15 per cent of Saudi Arabia’s population, according to the CIA World Factbook. “Why do those who claim to back freedom and democracy support this (Saudi) government?”
It said he described the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr as a “political error”.
Some of the men were shot by a firing squad and some were beheaded, a ministry spokesman said on Al-Arabiya TV.
The US State Department said Nimr’s execution “risks exacerbating sectarian tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced”.
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“Indeed, the House of Saud is so dependent on USA support that, even though it enjoys a long standing “special relationship” with America in much the same way Israel does, if the Obama administration was even remotely concerned about the rights of Nimr al-Nimr, or about his nephew Ali al-Nimr who was recently sentenced to death and crucifixion as a result of his participation in peaceful protests when he was 17, or indeed about the rights of any of the others eliminated by yesterday’s judicially sanctioned mass beheadings, then the United States could quite easily have stopped this madness by Obama himself making strong diplomatic representations months ago to King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his inner circle”, Grossman said.
