Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut ties with Iran after attacks on the kingdom’s diplomatic missions in the Islamic Republic will not distract from Riyadh’s “big mistake” of executing Mr Al-Nimr, a senior Iranian official said today.
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Riyadh/Tehran-Diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran took a turn for the worse on Sunday as Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and Riyadh asked the Iranian envoy to leave the Kingdom within 24 hours. Saudi Arabia is the Persian Gulf region’s Sunni Muslim power, while Iran is predominantly Shiite.
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Shiite muslims outraged at the execution by Saudi Arabia of a prominent shiite cleric, nimr Al nimr.
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The cleric’s execution could also complicate Saudi Arabia’s relationship with the Shiite-led government in Iraq.
In Tehran the Saudi embassy was ransacked after protesters threw petrol bombs and stormed the building, destroying its interior.
Haddad predicted adverse effects from the Saudi-Iranian conflict on Lebanon.
Later reports said the flight carrying the Saudi embassy staff had landed in Dubai in the UAE.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, while condemning Saudi Arabia’s execution of Mr Nimr, branded the protesters “extremists” and called the attack “unjustifiable”. Cleric Nimr al-Nimr “was neither encouraging people to armed protests, nor plotting secretly”. He was an outspoken government critic and a key leader of Shiite protests in eastern Saudi Arabia in 2011. That attitude exemplifies how Saudi Arabia has taken a more aggressive stance ever since King Salmaan came into power past year.
Iraq, whose Shi’ite-led government is close to Iran, religious and political figures have demanded that ties with Riyadh be severed, calling into question Saudi attempts to forge a regional alliance against ISIL militants which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Protests exploded in Turkey, and in Iran, where demonstrators torched the Saudi Arabian embassy. “Saudi Arabia will no longer deal with a country that supports terrorism and sectarianism”.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Riyadh of “divine revenge” and both Saudi and Iran summoned each other’s diplomatic envoys in protest.
It was largest mass execution carried out by the kingdom in three and a half decades. Street signs on the street where the Saudi Embassy is located in Tehran also were replaced with ones bearing the slain sheikh’s name.
He said human rights “play a very, very distant second fiddle” to resources when it comes to the oil-rich Middle East nation.
Deploring the violence outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran, he called for “calm and restraint” and urged “all regional leaders to work to avoid the exacerbation of sectarian tensions”, his spokesman said in a statement.
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Saudi Arabia fired back.
