Iran’s Interior Minister has told reporters storming Saudi embassy in Tehran has been organized by covert Saudi-affiliated hands.
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Tensions between revolutionary, mainly Shi’ite Iran and Saudi Arabia’s conservative Sunni monarchy have run high for years as they backed opposing forces in wars and political conflicts across the Middle East, usually along sectarian lines.
In addition, Qatar recalled its ambassador to Iran after its ally Saudi Arabia cut ties with Tehran following attacks on Saudi missions by Iranian protesters.
A long list of Arab countries such as Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, together with Islamic countries Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and Gulf Arab and African states were mentioned.
The council called on the worldwide community-all countries and regional and global bodies and organizations-to take serious and effective steps to prevent such attacks on all diplomatic missions in Iran.
Chinese vice foreign minister Zhang Ming met last week with senior Saudi and Iranian officials during two-day visits to each country, China’s ministry of foreign affairs said in separate statements on its official website. Larry is our main news editor. His Majesty strongly condemned the attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
“The Ministerial Council discussed the repercussions of the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the Saudi consulate in the Iranian city of Mashhad”.
“This 34-nation alliance that the Saudis established last month is set to be against Daesh and al-Qaeda; in reality this alliance is the Saudi vision of uniting the Sunni world against Iran and their Shiite militias”, Cafiero said.
The ongoing confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran, longtime powerful rivals, is further endangering regional stability, further complicating the already intricate situation in the Middle East.
Zarif said the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr had shown that Saudi Arabia’s “barbarism is clear” and said Riyadh was promoting the kind of extremist views taken up by groups like the Islamic State organisation. “We will not allow Saudi actions to have a negative impact”, he said.
Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of attacking its embassy in Yemen’s capital Sanaa and wounding a number of staff in an airstrike, state media reported.
In a speech to local officials, Erdogan said, “Only three [of those executed] were Shia”.
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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir had similarly strong comments for Iran Sunday, saying Tehran will “face the rejection of Arab countries” if it continues to support sectarian aggression, terror and violence.
