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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Sit down loser! Sit down loser!
Throw those rag heads some beads!
Drop in some aks vlad
"There will be peace in the world when religion is a footnote in history books."
you mean 'money'? that's religion in the US
Religion is just another convenient tool to divide us from them.
What ever you moral views are; that is your religion unless you have no conscience..my guess is you have one and have views as to what is right and wrong and when used with emotional bias; you likely call is rational and logical.
Just making the point that everyone has a form of religion; not all need to be of the formal variety. Only one religion is based on the concepts of love, forgiveness and relationship.
Iit is not formal but has been formalized, abused and misrepresented in various forms till this day & always will till it is not.
No, they don't. The absence of belief is not belief.
Yes, they do.
Man can not know everything. Man must gamble with the unknown.
If you believe the sun will appear tomorrow morning in the East, then you are a man of faith.
If you believe your "money" or your stack of precious will maintain "value" in trade tomorrow, then you are a man of faith.
If you believe rain will fall on your crops, then you are a man of faith.
Further, if you believe in Materialism, Quantum Physics has some bad news for you.
This is the shocker that semi-literate, pontificating know-it-alls either never heard of or are to afraid to look at. Their world view/ identity-self would crumble.
"If you believe the sun will appear tomorrow morning in the East, then you are a man of faith."
No you aren't. You are a rationalist.
That is simplistic. Where I can agree is the fact religion can be effectively used as a vehicle to manipulate and condition a person, it is really just a tool to simulate base motivations in a way that benefits those in control. These human characteristics will be present whether religion exists or not. The master controllers will simply employ another tool. Anything can be made into a religion.
Miffed
Nailed it. Thank you for your insights Miffed. Wado.
Well, its a beginning.
Sometimes revolutions burst into flames with a single match.
Saudis? Couldn't happen to more deserving scum.
Arm both sides to the teeth!!!!
"Arm both sides to the teeth!!!!"
I reckon you're being sarcastic right? Can either side be better armed than they already are?
Armed any better, they'd both have nukes. And that would be bad, very bad, for every living thing on the planet. 'Cause there are these things called trade winds, ocean currents, and the Gulf Stream ...
As if we're not already fucked to hell and back, with Fukushima Daiichi..
Burn it all down, if the shiites and sunnis can finally have their world war and leave sane people alone for the next 20 years, thatd be neat
Let's not forget that it was the US and its NATO friends who set the Middle East afire, with their false-flat mosque-burnings. Thanks a lot, fellas
We can look at the bright side of things here and use this opportunity to see if Iran really has nukes or not.
A few shrooms would really set this party off.
Some other questions come to mind as well. Do they still use silkworm missiles over there or are those old school? Have the Sauds purchased their own nukes? Just what was that new king smoking when he decided to give the cleric the axe (literally)? So many unknowns it's hard to construct a good paranoid delusional theory.
Aboslutely Fred, but the biggie we must always consider under situations like this is -who benefits-.
A shitty little state along the Dead Sea comes to mind about everytime.
Wait -- you brought some shrooms to the party??
dp
Just putting more butter on the popcorn and it gets better and better. I can hardly wait to see a few Saudi's hanging from the lamp posts in Tehran.
I am not a drinking man by nature but that beer for breakfast worked well after I chased it with a double shot of Jack Daniels.
Fvkmeblind shit is coming unhinged.
The religion of hate strikes again.
Agreed, but there is one "religion" of love & peace based on relationship and forgiveness; all other forms are of hate..including the largest religion...humanism.
Humanism is not a religion. It's a philosophy.
Islam is based on a philosophy; try educating yourself...unless you have no sense of morality; you have a religion.
Philosophy: A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school - a religion.
Philosophy has to be supported by physics.
There is nothing out there. It is all an illusion. Why take it so seriously Semites?
It has no more substance than the movie on your TV.
Bring in the goats! That'll calm them...
Better watch what you ask for ....
http://d.justpo.st/media/images/2014/04/ee7ca96e1720e5f719242e276a30f9a0...
Oil and comodities up...
USD down.
But, but, but the Saudi's have been appointed as the UN Humanitarian overlords...what can this mean?!
"Article 55 of United Nations Charter includes: “Universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.”
"In diametrical opposition to these fine founding aspirations, the UN has appointed Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council to head (or should that be “behead”) an influential human rights panel. The appointment was seemingly made in June, but only came to light on 17th September, due to documents obtained by UN Watch (1.)" - END
http://www.globalresearch.ca/united-nations-farce-saudi-arabia-to-head-u...
Up is down, left is right, good is evil; we are approaching a new chapter on the prophetic calendar.
sadly, its the ussa calling the shots... and its a big 'Fuck You' to the rest of the world!!!
salman is hunchbacking on uncle sams shoulders of hubristic, exceptionalism in a desert'd land of arrogance, sequestored by the anachronistic zeitgeist xenophobia of backwardation
But which chapter is it? DBA is a good investment just before the black horse rides but go with biocontainment companies for the pale horse and MIC will for the red horse. "early is the same as wrong" and "don't bet on the wrong colored horse" are sage stock market advice.
Like I said, regime change is coming at home and abroad.
It just rarely works out the way you'd expect.
We might just have had our Archduke Ferdinand moment.
Its estimated about 20 million died in WWI and 70 million in WWII. I think the Haus' of Saud just let loose a shitz storm with all of their peace and new years cheer.
50 million died from the spanish flu alone.
Nice. Population control at its finest. Murder, mayhem and ultimately, full employment.
We need a picture of Bibi rubbing his hands, as the zio-plan for Muslims to kill each other comes together.
Well we do have this all time favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtH7iv4ip1U
burn it to the fucking sand below the ground
The vile regime in Saudi Arabia deserve all the s**t they are now getting.
"S**t" ? Really? You think printing "shit" needs to be censored? Holy Fuck.
Get with the times smedley and say it correctly as in "Ho LEE Phuk."
*shakes head*
You mean "s****s h**d"?
You mean "s****s fucking h**d"?
Sunni vs Shia war.... the war that never ended from the 7th century begins anew.