Authorities in Tehran on Thursday accused the Saudi-led coalition now intervening against Houthi rebels in Yemen of hitting the Iranian Embassy in Sanaa in an overnight airstrike.
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Ansari didn’t specify when the alleged strike took place.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (right) meets with Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in Tehran on January 5, 2016.
Al-Nimr, a Saudi and beloved cleric among Shiite Muslims who made his mark during the Arab Spring protests, was among 47 people executed Saturday by Sunni-led Saudi Arabia.
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.
His death sparked Shia demonstrations in many countries including Iran, where protesters stormed and set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the kingdom’s consulate in second city Mashhad.
Beijing’s foreign minister has met with the Syrian National Coalition as countries worry increased tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia could negatively affect peace talks and the fight against the Islamic State group.
Sunni-ruled allies of Saudi Arabia have followed suit, taking diplomatic action against Iran, with Bahrain and Sudan also cutting ties. And, in a majority of the conflicts, the ongoing crises can be seen as an expansion of a proxy war between two of the region’s main powers. Annual imports from Saudi Arabia – mainly packing materials and textiles – total about $60 million a year.
Yemen’s foreign ministry also denied the embassy building had been targeted, according to the Saudi-allied, government-run state news agency, sabanew.net.
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Meanwhile, a number of countries – including the U.S., the U.K., China and Turkey – urged both Saudi Arabia and Iran to show restraint amid the ongoing row.
