Residents and witnesses in the capital Sanaa said there was no damage to the embassy building in the district of Hadda.
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Earlier, IRNA had said that shrapnel hit a wall of the embassy and injured several staff there.
Following a cabinet decision on Thursday, the foreign ministry summoned acting charge d’affaires of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and handed him an official memorandum. “For sure we will not allow any such thing”, the young minister and deputy crown prince said. “For sure we will not allow any such thing”.
Qatar has had troubled relations with Saudi Arabia in the past, but ties have improved in recent years, and both countries are leading backers of the Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad.
Iranian state television made the announcement on Thursday. Most of those killed were Sunnis linked to al-Qaeda attacks in the kingdom.
There are concerns that further violence could erupt.
“The policies of the Saudi regime will have a domino effect and they will be buried under the avalanche they have created”, the IRGC’s second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.
Asked about the diplomatic post attacks, Mohammed al-Nimr said it was “not acceptable”.
However, many ultraconservatives of the Saudi Wahhabi school of Islam view Shiites as heretics.
“Our demands to the Iraqi government are clear”, said Maytham al-Allaq, a leader of the Waad Allah (Promise of God) militia.
Ibrahim al-Jaafari was speaking on Wednesday in a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who appeared to indicate that Tehran was open to resolving the stand-off.
Authorities in Iran have announced plans to bar Iranian citizens from making a hajj to the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina, CNN reports.
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The Iranian president stressed that his country is seeking good relations with its neighbors, including Saudi Arabia. The protests were in response to Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric on Saturday.
