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Iraq must walk fine line amid tensions in Mideast
Iran on Thursday said Saudi warplanes had attacked its embassy in Yemen’s capital, a development that would exacerbate tensions between the major Shi’ite and Sunni powers in the region, and Riyadh said it would investigate the accusation.
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So, Thomas, Saudi Arabia executes this Shiite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr. It said the decision came during an emergency meeting of the Cabinet of President Hassan Rouhani. Foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir told Reuters on Monday the kingdom was halting air traffic and trade links with the Islamic republic, although none of the few Saudi companies with interests in Iran has yet announced changes to their operations.
Qatar recalled its ambassador to Iran on Wednesday, state news agency QNA said, after allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain cut their ties with Tehran following attacks on Saudi missions by Iranian protesters.
Residents and witnesses in Sanaa said there was no damage to the embassy building in Hadda district. The newspaper Sharq acknowledged in an editorial yesterday that the attack on the Saudi embassy is making Iran pay “politically, with regards to the media and legally”. Though low oil prices hurt Saudi Arabia, they negatively impact Iran in a much greater way and it crimps Iran’s ability to fund sectarian uprisings in Saudi Arabia’s backyard.
Saturday’s execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others in a single day on terrorism charges has stirred a vigorous reaction in the Middle East and beyond.
And several countries, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and two other nations have either completely disconnected their diplomatic relations with Iran or have at least seriously downgraded them. So, whenever there is a conflict involving a Shia minority, or, for instance, the execution of this Shia ayatollah in Saudi Arabia, the Iranians feel as if the Saudis are actually trying to hurt them.
Iran accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen of deliberately bombing its embassy and injuring staff, worsening already-strained tensions between the rival powers.
Kuwait said Tuesday the embassy attacks “represent a flagrant breach of global agreements and norms and a grave violation of Iran’s worldwide commitments”.
Even within Iraq, there could be backlash to attempts to work with Saudi Arabia.
Mehdi Ghasemi/ReutersFlames and smoke rise from Saudi Arabia’s embassy during a demonstration in Tehran January 2, 2016.
The truce formally ended over the weekend – just as the Saudis broke diplomatic ties with Iran following attacks by Iranian protesters on its diplomatic missions.
For years, of course, those anxious to do business with Saudi Arabia have insisted that reform, admitted slow and scarcely visible, is stirring hopefully within the deeply conservative kingdom.
As Obama begins his final year in office, “we hope that he’ll see that overregulation… hinders rather than advances what he hopes to be one of his administration’s defining legacies, environmental improvement”, Gerard said, citing almost 100 regulations imposed by Obama on the oil and gas industry.
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“The Iranians hold the Obama legacy in their hands”, said Miller, who worked in the State Department for more than two decades. The watchdog and other groups have alleged that Saudi officials discriminate against the Shiites by rarely allowing them to build mosques and limiting their access to public education, government employment and the justice system.