Meanwhile, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says politicians in Saudi Arabia will face divine retribution for the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a Shi’ite cleric.
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Saudi Arabia has executed 47 “terrorists”, according to the interior ministry, including Fares al-Shuwail, a convicted al-Qaeda leader, and Nimr al-Nimr, a Shia religious leader.
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An Iranian research analyst identifying himself as Amir Toumaj said “the mob” set fire to a room in the embassy.
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Sectarian anger was also enflamed in eastern parts of Saudi, with hundreds of Shia Muslims marching through the streets. Islamic scholars around the world hold vastly different views on the application of the death penalty in Shariah law.
The U.S. State Department, German foreign ministry and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini all warned that al-Nimr’s execution “risks exacerbating sectarian tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced”.
But Saturday’s execution of top cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr drew calls in Iraq for the Saudi embassy to remain shuttered.
He was an outspoken government critic and a key leader of Shiite protests in eastern Saudi Arabia in 2011.
Many of those executed had links to al-Qaeda and played a role in a string of deadly bombings throughout Saudi Arabia since 2003.
Unconfirmed reports say that Saudi Arabia has expelled a number of Iranian diplomats following the incidents in Tehran.
“We have previously expressed our concerns about the legal process in Saudi Arabia and have frequently raised these concerns at high levels of the Saudi Government”.
They then broke into the building and lit fires inside before being cleared by police, the ISNA news agency reported.
Saudi Arabia’s “justice system is independent, just and transparent and does not… operate discreetly as the is case in Iran”, the statement added.
Mr Khamenei called the killing of Nimr “a political mistake by the Saudi government”. “And the battle for influence in the region between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran has inflamed sectarian tensions”.
They pulled down the flag of Saudi Arabia from the building of the consulate and throw handmade crackers which caused fire in part of the building, it said. Shiites make up 10- to 15 percent of Saudi Arabia’s population, according to the CIA World Factbook.
As the main Shia power in the region, Iran takes huge interest in the affairs of Shia minorities in the Middle East, making it inevitable that the two countries would clash over Sheikh Nimr’s treatment.
The statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, accused Tehran of “blind sectarianism” and said that “by its defence of terrorist acts” Iran is a “partner in their crimes in the entire region”.
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Iran has offered “many Al-Qaeda leaderships safe haven since 2001” in addition to “offering an Iranian passport” to a Saudi suspect involved in 1996 bombings in the kingdom who was arrested previous year, the ministry said.
