Protesters Storm, Set Fire To Saudi Embassy In Iran
Earlier today, Saudi Arabia announced it had staged its largest mass execution in 25 years.
43 al-Qaeda conspirators were killed along with 4 Shiites accused of shooting policemen in the anti-government protests which broke out during the Arab Spring. Among the Shiites killed: prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
His death drew sharp criticism from Iran and Hezbollah with the latter calling the execution a “grave mistake.” Here's WSJ:
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah called Mr. al-Nemer’s execution a “stain that would haunt this regime,” while former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Malki, another ally of Iran, said the execution “will topple the Saudi regime.”
Arab Gulf allies of the kingdom such as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates said they supported steps taken by Saudi Arabia to “confront terrorism.”
Mr. al-Nemer was sentenced to death in October 2014 and charged with crimes including disobeying the ruler, inciting sectarian strife and bearing arms against security forces.
Mr. al-Nemer wasn’t widely known outside Qatif before 2011, when he emerged as a leading voice behind Shiite protests that rocked the oil-rich eastern part of Saudi Arabia for two years.
He was arrested after a car chase near his family’s farm in their hometown of Awwamiya in July 2012. Authorities said he opened fire at security forces. His family has denied this and said he was unarmed.
“We condemn a deplore this unjust killing and consider it an example of killing wisdom and moderation,” Mr. al-Nemer’s family said in a statement.
"The Saudi government supports terrorists and takfiri [heretic] extremists, while executing and suppressing critics inside the country," Iran's Foreign Ministry declared. These are "hostile statements," Riyadh responded, adding that Iran's comments constitute "a blatant intervention in the kingdom’s affairs.”
Protests erupted in the Qatif district of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province as well as in Bahrain, where hundreds took to the streets, burning tires and braving tear gas fired by police. As we reported earlier today, protesters had also converged on the Saudi embassy in Iran.
Now, in what looks like a repeat of the Iran Hostage Crisis, the protesters in Tehran have reportedly broken into the Saudi embassy and set it ablaze with Molotov cocktails.
"Images shared on social media early on Sunday morning appeared to show Iranian protesters breaking into Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran and starting fires, after gathering there to denounce the kingdom's execution of a Shi'ite cleric," Reuters reports. "One photograph, posted on Twitter, showed protesters outside the embassy building with small fires burning inside, while another showed a room with smashed furniture purportedly inside the building."
Video shows protesters inside Saudi embassy in Tehran pic.twitter.com/DEmsNLI6ZG
— Sobhan Hassanvand (@Hassanvand) January 2, 2016
It's 23:50 here in Tehran, seems protest agnst Nimr execution continues outside Saudi embassy in Tehran right now pic.twitter.com/5LLj89FhYn
— Sobhan Hassanvand (@Hassanvand) January 2, 2016
#BREAKING: Angry protesters storm Saudi embassy in Tehran
pic.twitter.com/xOX5n6QtsR
— Sobhan Hassanvand (@Hassanvand) January 2, 2016
Protesters break into Saudi embassy building in Tehran pic.twitter.com/7wtBGpZuco
— Sobhan Hassanvand (@Hassanvand) January 2, 2016
Police disperse protesters at Saudi embassy in Tehran
Firefighters are trying to put off fire at embassy pic.twitter.com/WWb1QCURQG
— Sobhan Hassanvand (@Hassanvand) January 2, 2016
Saudi Arabia flag brought down at embassy in Tehran pic.twitter.com/7ptL0gV0ZF
— Sobhan Hassanvand (@Hassanvand) January 2, 2016
Protesters in Mashhad bring down Saudi flag at consulate following al-Nimr execution pic.twitter.com/2abn4V2KgW
— Sobhan Hassanvand (@Hassanvand) January 2, 2016
VIDEO: Footage from earlier tonight of protesters throwing Molotov cocktails at Saudi embassy in Tehran - @hamid3663
pic.twitter.com/j6ATZDYEzZ
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) January 2, 2016
As a reminder, the Sheikh was a prominent voice in the anti-government movement in Saudi Arabia. Riyadh effectively killed (literally) two birds with one stone with his execution: 1) a dissident voice was forever silenced, 2) a message was sent to Tehran, whose regional influence is expanding in Iraq and Yemen and whose forces have served to shore up the Assad government in its fight against Sunni extremists in Syria.
Now, the Iranians look set to send a message back to Riyadh as the sectarian divide once again rears its ugly head.
Meanwhile, Iran's foreign ministry is calling for "calm." Here's Reuters:
Iran's Foreign Ministry called for calm in the early hours of Sunday after police dispersed angry protesters who had stormed Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran.
Demonstrators broke into the embassy and started fires before being cleared away by the police, Iran's ISNA news agency reported, after gathering there to denounce the kingdom for executing a prominent Shi'ite cleric on Saturday.
The ministry issued a statement calling on protesters to respect the diplomatic premises, according to the Entekhab news website.
If this situation escalates, clearly crude oil will be well bid on Sunday afternoon.
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Even the tylers have to eat. I donated a couple of times but not in at least a year.
Sorry. I only saw what you wrote after I wrote mine.
Once again, on pc, ice dragon, on android uc browser. Fuck apple.
You welcome
Was having the same frustration. Use Firefox, works great.
ghostery addon. Very useful and restores the site to its original state.
Get a clue.
The internet is one big commercial.
Good advice above.
whomever threw the Molotov cocktails in the windows has a career in baseball.
Shit, I can't believe they actually executed Nimrod al-Nimrod. He was one of my faves!
I kept telling him, "Dude.....don't be such a NIMROD !" But did he listen......NOOOOoooooo !
Perhaps the 'Gitmo Guys' could be transferred to Saudi.
Then the POTUS retreat could be finished with 27 holes on the futball fields can be finished.
Camp David is too cold in even the high season and all that Adirondack furniture is very outdated.
Precursor to Franz was the undocumented fruit vendor who set himself on fire in Tunisia.
You ticked a random brain cell.
OT \
I wonder if Banana man is doing ok.
Im sure somehow this will require US boots on the ground somewhere. 'muh excepshunalism' dictates that america must intervene in everything. Looks like the saudis might have really stepped in it big time, and the USgov will do almost as much to protect the saudis from their own stupidity as they will the israelis
Bretton Woods.
Do I hear the sound of the US Fleet moving to protect the oil loading docks?
Then again, why bother. The plan is to foment chaos nearly everywhere. Besides, now that con-gress voted to allow US oil to go elsewhere it is a perfect time to watch the middle east go up in flames. Just not so good for you and me. Servitude and poverty coming to a town near you.
GroundskeeperC,
"...USgov will do almost as much to protect the saudis from their own stupidity as they will the israelis"
yeah, i agree, right up until their utility is exhausted. this guy used to be a FoUS (friend of uncle sam), and then, all of a sudden, his utility expired...just like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livjopRmLw4
i reckon we'll see a similar pattern with the ruling class in SA. they'll decampt to far flung locales and take their wealth with them in the same way wealthy persians took over parts of LA. the shah's own children lived here in boston (it's a tragic story)...i've met a couple of his close relatives in my time in the area...good people. i still maintain that the shah was one of the good guys. he had no idea who (and what) he was shaking hands with.
what's done is done, i suppose. time now for persian renissance...try and make up for that nasty coup and all.
btw, thanks for posting that article about the overstock.com guy -- patrick byrne (i think that's his name)...every financial journalist in the country should be compelled to read that. and, yeah, the cramer cabal runs DEEP. someday all the shit surround that nonsense will be exposed. till then -- BUY BUY BUY!!!
happy new year,
janus
The Shah was a murderer with Savak units and put in place by the CIA - one of the operations performed by Dulles - in 1953 - the people took him out - should have been more of his henchmen wiped out in LA etc
The Mullahs have done fine for their people in the last 35 years
Yeah......take out the cougar and replace him with a bunch of panthers.
That's what I call progress.
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/35-years-ago-an-iranian-revolution...
Um, the Saudis will not be abandoned if they really are crypto-Jews.
House of Saud. Not Saudis. The people are Wahhabist Sunni Islam.
@Janus,
That was a link of truthiness I didn't recall! 74/76...run it through the computer. Telling.
I know an Iranian professor here. His stories on the Shah's brutality will make you cringe. Any wonder the manifestation of his demise for such an interview?
Read the treaty of Verona?
IMO, the whole mess is the counter-reformation & not the blatantly obvious, to ZHealots anyway.
Have a question to ax you, if you'd ping me in chat.
Si vous plait.
Please list the names of some Iranian suicide bombers. There is a stark difference between the Iranians and the Salafists, Takfiris, etc. The turks need to get to Syria before they get to Iran, and that's not going swimmingly. Remember why Lebanon, Syria, Iraq were all invaded. The Eguptions are not going to do anything. Al-Sisi is a true leader, and had plenty of opportunities to piss his country away, but actually saved it. He's not going to war against Iran.
http://www.meforum.org/1059/irans-suicide-brigades
It is all about getting oil pipelines to the Meditteranean. And booty.And the guys blowing themselves up don't have a clue. Talk about being a tool.
"It's Islam, stupid."
Pretty sure the Iranians are the ones with towels on their heads and the other ones are camel jockeys and sand niggers.
The Iranians pull the strings on the suicide bombers, like they did in Lebanon against our troops in 1984.
Thanks for the Zionist perspective.
http://www.meforum.org/1059/irans-suicide-brigades
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/21/suicide-bombers-poised-to-strike-u-s-i...
Prolly used them all up by now.
It bears worth repeating:
"The way I see it, any time you have Muslims murdering Muslims who vow to "retaliate", it's a win-win for the rest of us. Allahu akbar, baby! Have at it, knock yourselves out, (literately)!"
You are correct, gator-E. Them crazy Shiite fucks think they need a few millions to die so the "12th Imam" will return. It also shows that Iran has learned nothing in the last 37 years about protecting and respecting the diplomatic status of embassies whether you like them or not. I think the day will come when the raping of embassies will bode poorly on the Persians.
Erdogan has gone full retard with his conversion to Muslim Kahlif-wanna-be. Despite all of their shortcomings, I think the Turks are hard pressed to surrender the liberties they gained from Ataturk. Also, I think Al-Sisi is a much shrewder cat than to get tangled up in "foreign entanglements", but we'll see.
Erdogan overplayed his hand. He assumed NATO would have his back when he downed that jet. This is a proxy war with Iran controlling hezbollah and the USA and the joos turks and Saudis controlling ISIS.
Putin over reached as well as he underestimated ISIS and it's backers. He thought his air cover would allow Assad and Iran to retake the country in days...
This one will be a long one. I still better Egypt goes in. They and the Turks only have the numbers to deal with Iran directly
Just looking at it geographically should Iran throw down with SA I see possibilities of...
- Turkey does not have a dog in this fight. They may get greedy and try to push their border into Iran, just that NW corner which would be more aestheticall pleasing to the eye so there is some justification.
- Iran will cross thru Iraq and probably want to keep a chunk of Iraq so they have a land bridge to any territory they take in SA.
- Great opportunity for Egypt to move across the Red Sea.
- The UAE is gonna get fucked up.
- Iraq is gonna get more fucked than it already is. Iraq as a nation state, the fat lady done sung, gone home, working on a bottle of red wine with her feet up.
- Pakistan would have the opportunity to expand into Iran a tad.
Get into politics/religion/family/oil/etc and I start thinking I am happy not to be responsible for the decisions. The Middle East could quickly turn Revelations. Real bad time to be shorting oil. Great time to be in the US shale oil biz. The SPR will run out fast when the tankets quit moving.
Well said! I'd just add that there are plenty of young men throughout the ME, not just Egypt, who will fight for a comparatively small sum. However I would add that most of the same young men will fight for the other side for a few bucks more. And so it goes. Yup. This just keep getting hotter and hotter and the US/NATO are losing control. Look forward to MUCH more expensive oil (soaring inflation) in north America soon. And no, oil sands and frakking won't begin to cut it. Present refineries are modifying as fast as they can but none new are being built.
How true, how true ... lots of mercenaries in the arena ... just like Roman days - which senator can field the best team of slicers and bludgons. Begs several questions:
1) In what form is the payment - Euro's, pieces of silver/gold, 1's and O's in some marvelous electronic register somewhere. Or American Dollar$. Is it in plastic form ?
2) If dollars are indeed the Universal Bribe, the US simply needs to PAY all of the ISIL batshit crazies an additional 50% and toss in some beach bunny video along with a warehouse airdrop of past issues of Hustler. Print and hand out sufficient FRN's and the ceasefires begin - in return for a monthly stipend. WTF, doesn't actually cost anything - only paper, and in six months, comparative peace ensues. After that, it's like any welfare enclave - sucking on the tit of the handout tends to make lazy, spendthrift mercs. The Federal Reserve System backs it's paper with nothing but debt - what's a few more Trillion.
We pay welfare in the US, don't we ? And it works - there are no chanting crowds hurling burning bottles in US cities (except Ferguson, perhaps) and very little organized civil unrest. TPTB won, with FRN's in the U$A; why not in MENA.
Wait, didn't we drop GAZILLIONS IN ACTUAL PAPER into IRAQ - still wonder where those "missing millions" went - probably split between Haliburton and many others as spols of war. So, fagetit - never work. Janet, are you there ??? Come join me dear, for another tequila - double salt. Or would you prefer a sunrise ? With green shoots.
How about we stay out of it.. Let the Sunnis and Shits work it out and let blow back go to Russia. When they're done killing each other and if Issis forms a state and they are a real threat to U.S. let's follow the law. Congress should declare war. War would last closer to 14 months than 14 years.No winning hearts and minds like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan,Libya and Syria or stay out of it.
Gave you an uppy for your reasonable approach.
Too bad there are few reasonable persons in positions of authority.
Would never get past your local yokel politicians, much less congress.
If congress formally declares war, then they have to implement a wartime tax code and sell war bonds.
When this event triggers relevation in the people that they have been living under a war time tax code continuously for the last 70 years, and that the 17T is basically a war bond ... There wont be any 14 month foriegn wars, there be a revoloution.
Ahh forget it. Lets try it. we will win either way ... cause 'merica f*ck yeah.
All thanks to GWB and Barry. Well done idiots. Should have... allowed Ron Paul to be president so we could pull our armed forces out of the Middle East, regained our integrity, and watched as the ragheads, sand-niggers, and assorted chosenites kill themselves off in an orgy of mutual self-destruction.
Fixed it.
Being a champion for Ron Paul is good.
Calling vile names not so much.
quintago: "Iran uses it [religion] to spread influence"
Nothing wrong with "spreading influence". It's the civilized version of Darwinism in modern society, to allow for the "Battle of Ideas and value propositions", such that "May the best team win".
Spreading it via other means is a problem in our Western society -- where we have become too gentrified, to cope well with conflict-resolution-by-physical-means.
"Should have taken out Iranian regime"
That makes sense only to supporters of the rampaging American Empire and its rulers. Oh, and to those run-of-the-mill psychopaths who revel in mass slaughter, of course.
>>>Mark my words, they are going to use this as a pretext to take over Eastern Saudi Arabia. Not directly, but will bring it under their sphere of influence.
Long term, you're quite possibly right, but this will only play out over many years. They don't call it "the Persian Gulf" for nothing; much of the south side of the Gulf was once a Persian possession
The only things holding Saudi Arabia together are oil money, US security guarantees, and the virtues of the House of Saud, all of which have a limited shelf life.
Quintago, tell me why I should give a shit who takes over SA? Why I should send my sons there to die?
There's only one thing anyone who owns excess oil can do with it. Sell it. No need to die for the right to buy it.
Right, the smartest group in the world (central banks) that have taken over everything, will just give it away. Yup.
It's all going according to their plan.
Are they protesting the video?
Yes.
They haven't been the same since Al Gores Inconvenient Truth on oil and Miley Cyrus' twerking with a goat.
They're a very emotional people ya know ;-)
That is funny, + 1
Kristalnacht, Islam style.
Shake Yer Booty.
Who did they execute? Archsheik el Ferdinand?
"Images shared on social media early on Sunday morning appeared to show Iranian protesters breaking into Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran and starting fires, after gathering there to denounce the kingdom's execution of a Shi'ite cleric,"What a fucking load of crap. Operative words being "appeared to show Iranian protesters ..." and blah blah and fucking blah. Go to al Jazeera, go to BBC World News - not a fucking word about RT's "scoop". Will you quit with RT ?? When will you quit with the RT?? What a load of fucking shite.
Edit: oh yes now I see the "protests". Islamic women dressed in full burkha shaking their fists. Oh holy shit! Be scared! Run away run away!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
What's the point of your rant? If you are saying the BBC or Al-Jazzera have more credibility than RT, you are a sad, old fool.
No, he's just a boring polack with a phase shift.