Iran condemns the attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran and pursues to identify and punish those responsible, Seyed Abbas Araghchi said speaking at the meeting of the OIC foreign ministers held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday.
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“These figures are deeply worrying, showing that the United Kingdom continued to dispatch huge amounts of weaponry to Saudi Arabia despite overwhelming evidence that the Saudi war machine was laying waste to Yemeni homes, schools and hospitals”, said Allan Hogarth, Amnesty International’s head of Policy and Government Affairs, to the London-based Independent newspaper.
Foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in a statement, said it “condemns the aggressions against the missions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Tehran and Mashhad”.
Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia nosedived after the kingdom’s execution of top opposition cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr early this month.
Most members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world’s second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, have condemned Iran for attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran.
Xi’s visit to Riyadh is the latest in a flurry of diplomatic meetings in Saudi Arabia this week, including visits by Pakistan’s prime minister on Monday, France’s foreign minister Tuesday and the U.S. Secretary of State Saturday. All were convicted of “terrorism”.
Iranian authorities have said that those detained over the incident included its ringleader but no charges have been announced.
“This situation turns us from effectively addressing the true challenges that threaten the future of our member states and their peoples”, he said, before going on to name recent attacks by suspected Islamist militants in Afghanistan, Turkey, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Libya and Mali.
Warning against widening sectarian tensions, he said the attacks against Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic missions had “breached diplomatic norms”.
January 19, 2016 (EIRNS)-Xi Jinping arrived today in Saudi Arabia for a two-day visit, before going on to Iran and Egypt, in a trip aimed at intervening against the British provocation of Sunni-Shia warfare. Iran has also consolidated its influence in Iraq and Lebanon through the militant Hezbollah movement, alleged leaders of which are under sanction by Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh had also called for an emergency meeting of the Arab League after the attack on its missions.
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The 12-point statement expressed full support for the efforts of the KSA and all member states to combat terrorism.
