URGENT:
SAUDI ARABIA CUTS ALL DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH IRAN
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January, 2016
Breaking
news: Saudi
Arabia cuts diplomatic ties with Iran following yesterday’s protest
and attack on their embassy in Teheran. The tensions were sparked
when Saudi Arabia executed a Shiite cleric.
Saudi Foreign
Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that in a time period of 48 hours all
diplomats must return to their country. According to Al Arabiya
TV, all Saudi diplomats have been evacuated from Iran and are
currently in Dubai.
Saudi’s
biggest Western ally, the United States, urged both countries to find
a diplomatic solution to the tensions. However, according to sources
close to Riyadh told Reuters that Saudi Arabia thinks that
“enough is enough when it comes to Iran.”
It’s
interesting to see what positions will the other big countries take
as this conflict can easily escalate.
A
potential war between the two countries could lead to unthinkable
consequences and a big World War.
‘Any differences?’ Iran Supreme Leader's cartoon equates ISIS with Saudi Arabia after executions
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RT,
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January, 2015
Iran’s
Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, released an incendiary
cartoon comparing Saudi Arabia to Islamic State, after Riyadh carried
out a death sentence against opposition Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr
al-Nimr.
The
satirical picture showing Saudi and Islamic State executioners
standing side-by-side, with English captions reading “Any
differences?” was published on his official website on Saturday.
Khamenei also released a statement on Sunday
promising “divine” retribution
against Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia – Iran’s regional
archrival.
Khamenei.ir
Doubtlessly, unfairly-spilled blood of oppressed martyr #SheikhNimr will affect rapidly & Divine revenge will seize Saudi politicians.
“Sheikh
Nimr will undoubtedly receive the grace of God and the hands of
divine vengeance will surely snatch – by their necks – those
cruel individuals who took his life and this is a source of comfort
for us,” said Khamenei,
who has greater political power than the president of Iran and status
as a leading religious authority.
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khamenei.ir
Nimr
was among 47 people beheaded or shot by firing squad across Saudi
Arabia on Saturday in the biggest single-day execution spree since
1980. All but four of the condemned were convicted as Al-Qaeda
members, while Nimr and three other Shias were accused of inciting
riots among Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority between 2010 and 2012,
when Nimr was arrested.
Doubtlessly, unfairly-spilled blood of oppressed martyr #SheikhNimr will affect rapidly & Divine revenge will seize Saudi politicians.
The
execution of Nimr, a public figure popular with youths, alongside
terrorists responsible for a series of bombings carried out between
2003 and 2006, provoked additional outrage in the Shia world. Iran
summoned the Saudi ambassador, and just hours later, a mob set fire
to the Saudi embassy in Tehran, chanting “Death
to Al Saud!” –
the ruling family of Saudi Arabia.
Hassan Rouhani
I hereby condemn #SheikhNimr's execution & send my condolences to his family & Muslim world. This act violates human rights & Islamic values
“This
oppressed scholar had neither invited people to armed movement, nor
was involved in covert plots,”
said Khamenei.“Sheikh
Nimr martyrdom and unfair bloodshed is a political mistake by Saudi
Arabia. Those truly concerned about the destiny of humans must watch
Saudi crimes and avoid indifference towards them.”
Iran’s
Supreme Leader also listed the bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia
in Yemen, and its army’s buttressing of the Bahraini regime, as
additional transgressions by Riyadh.
Khamenei
is not the first to draw comparisons between the militants of Islamic
State, who are rampaging through nearby Syria and Iraq, and Saudi
Arabia, since both espouse a very similar Wahhabi ideology, and
consequently share comparable legal and criminal codes, despite being
sworn enemies.
According
to public sources, Saudi Arabia executed at least 157 people last
year, the most in two decades, predominantly by beheading, the same
technique favored by Islamic State.
Saudi
Arabia on the Brink of Civil War
Саудовская Аравия на грани гражданской войны
The
government of Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of armored vehicles and
tanks to suppress the demonstrators, angered by the execution of
the Shiite preacher Nimr al-Nimr, reports the Iranian media
"The
government of Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of armored vehicles and
military units in the area of the town of al-Qatif in the East of
the country to quell violent protests of the population who
demonstrated, in connection with the execution of Shiite Muslim
cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr", — a message from the Fars
News Agency said. Mass demonstrations were held in the home city of
an-Nimr in al-Qatif and other areas in the East of Saudi Arabia
with a predominantly Shiite population, reports TASS.
In
connection with the execution of Shiite theologian on Sunday, Iran
declared a public holiday in all the highest secular and spiritual
educational institutions. Expectedly Iran also held mass
demonstration against political executions in Riyadh. The first
protest action held a group of students in front of the Saudi
Embassy in Tehran. The demonstrators shouted slogans condemning the
actions of al Saud (the ruling Royal dynasty).
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