Iranian security stand guard to protect Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran, Iran, while a group of demonstrators gathered to protest execution of a Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Jan. 3.
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It also illustrated the kingdom’s new aggressiveness under King Salman.
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Amnesty International criticised Nimr’s arrest for being part of a campaign by the Saudi authorities to quash all dissent. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was “deeply dismayed” by the executions and called again for an end to the death penalty.
Noting how he had written to the government of the Saudi Arabia on the subject of Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr’s death sentence earlier previous year, he added: “The category of ‘most serious crimes, ‘ for which the death penalty is still permissible, has been consistently interpreted by human rights mechanisms as being restricted to murder and other forms of intentional killing”.
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Al-Nimr died on Saturday alongside 46 terrorism convicts.
In a televised speech on Sunday, Hassan Nasrallah described al-Nimr as “the martyr, the holy warrior”, and also gave condolences to the people of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite eastern regions.
After executing a well-known Shiite cleric, inflaming sectarian conflict, Saudi Arabia has now announced it’s severing diplomatic ties with Iran, NPR’s Leila Fadel reports.
Saudi state television also reported the executions.
The remarks from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani highlighted the fury over the death of Nimr, who spent over a decade studying theology in the Islamic republic. “The only thing he did was public criticism”.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said that by condemning the execution, Iran had “revealed its true face represented in support for terrorism”.
Rouhani said in a statement that he had ordered Iran’s interior minister to identify the attackers and “bring them to justice, in order to put an end to these kinds of abomination and guarantee the full safety of countries’ diplomatic missions”.
Protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran late on Saturday, setting fire to the building before being driven back by police.
The cleric’s brother said it is “unfortunate that the verdicts would be closer to personal revenge” by Nayef rather than based on criminal proof.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was “deeply dismayed” over the Saudi Arabia executions, including that of Al-Nimr, 56, according to a UN statement.
Tehran authorities could not be immediately reached for comment about the apparent name change for the street. While Washington and the other Western powers have the nous to switch tactics from backing a covert insurgency to belatedly trying a political process for eventual regime change in Syria, it would appear that the Saudis and Turks are still committed to the covert war agenda. He was an outspoken critic of the Saudi government but denied advocating violence.
Saudi Arabia reopened its Baghdad embassy last week after closing it in 1990 following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, but Nimr’s execution sparked calls from prominent religious and political figures to reverse the recent rapprochement with Riyadh.
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The U.N.’s top human rights official has strongly criticized Saudi Arabia for executing 47 people in a single day. Demonstrations also took place in Bahrain, Turkey, Pakistan and northern India.
