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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Not to worry, the UN and US govt will in response, pass more sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses.
Yep, right about the time they want oil to be expensive again.
When can we get some of this shit started over here? Listening to Larry Kudlow's fat mouth on the radio tonight flapping about optimistic on the economy. What a load of horseshit. Im ready to get this thing started.
Larry Cudchew's brain evaporated circa 1979...and even then it was the size of an ant's morning shit.
He has his sell orders in....
Here is your chance.
Grab your black rifle and CHARGE! :
https://www.rt.com/usa/327762-armed-bundy-militia-oregon-ranchers/
Breaking news
Religitards killing Religitards whats not to like? Except the killing part. Why is the human species so flawed it keeps killing each other over superstitious beliefs? Or is there really a third option we really are controlled/made by advanced evil reptilian aliens overlords who feed on human anguish and fear?
It doesn't even have to go that far. Psychopaths feed on anguish and fear and religion is a tool for them but they will use race or whatever else is convenient. The race of man has a psychopath problem that they haven't acknowledged or dealt with. Left to their own devices they will take over every time. It becomes irrelevant if there is a demon or a lizard on the shoulder of every psychopath if they are not in power.
They are easily detectable by simple tests that monitor for biological reactions that coincide with empathy that cannot be faked. Hook somebody up and have them watch a video of something horrendous. The normal person will have a reaction even if they try to hide it. The psychopath goes into a calm state similar to a meditative state, they do not do fear or empathy.
Thank you. That was the most enlightening non-death threat I have ever read on the intenet after typing my opinoin.
Havea nice day!
Psychopaths attempt to fill the endless void within themselves by seeking narcissistic power. They are ruthless in this pursuit and will slit the throat of an innocent child and cover the act with skilled deception in order to acheive their goal. A decent person does not have this ability (implicitly sanctioned in Machiavelli's The Prince). Futhermore psychopaths, in contradistinction to sociopaths are able to cooperate with other phychopaths and even condition weaker normal people to become phychopathic. For this reason phychopaths are far more dangerous than sociopaths, who by definition operate alone and tend to be solitary socially.
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Psychopath_vs_Sociopath
You are spot on when you say "The race of man has a psychopath problem that they haven't acknowledged or dealt with." We must acknowledge the vast importance of the issue of phychopathy and include the study of psychopathy into the humanities and learn to recognize and neutralise the individuals. Our freedoms, survival and progess depends on it.
We'll have to ask The HildeBeast.....
Religion is just another form of culture and identity. The underliying issue is that of tribal identity, where anyone not in the tribe merits death.
People strive to see differences and split based on the most trivial of matter. For instance in Jerusalem the orthodox Jews look identical to any outsider, yet they belong to different mutually hostile sects with virtually identical theologies and can only be set apart by the style of their black hats.
There will be a moment, a split second as the skin starts to melt off of their worthless corpses when the Saud's realize how evil they have been. That is the moment their souls will go to hell, forever.
Wall off the fucks and throw in some liquor.....let 'em go at it for a decade or so...air drop some ordinance and let them blow each other up....wipe each other out....
And air drop bacon bits everywhere.....
The most fascinating thing I see about all religion of any kind is that the truly faithful are complete brainwashed dipshits that will die for a ghost in the sky.
Wars for religion? That’s been tried before if you can read some history. You can also subscribe to your own death while you’re at it. Pagans and infidels need not apply.
OT but RT is saying another militia type ranch standoff in Oregon this time.Two ranchers being taken to prison,
and all the Bundy ranch types are being called to the scene. Here is a great what-if : what if the Federales and the
local yokels start fraternizing? And to put some icing on the cake,the POTUS is using executive powers to implement
new firearm confiscations.As if laws have helped.IF laws helped then 2008 Wall Street meltdown would not have
occurred nor the bailout afterwards.Nor AG holder giving weapons to mexican drug cartels.Are we looking at another
WACO type seige? Many of these people are Veterans,very patriotic and it will ripple thru the 50 states if this turns
into another disaster.Could we be looking at a coup d' Etat situation? Your choice dear voter:Hillary or Trump.
What about neither? Break out the guillotines.....
Never heard anything about the stand off in Oregon. I'd think ZH would've covered this one by now. Media is silent on this one.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/drama...
The Sauds seem to be irrational actors behaving suicidal and it doesn't make a lot of sense from the perspective of their own self interest. They can't possibly believe they can take on all of the fires they are starting in the ME while they have destoyed their own revenue and can barely keep their own from uprising. Yemen was just making an ass out of them recently for gawd sakes.
They obviously are expecting help from Europe or the US at some point but how they will survive is a mystery. Maybe the magic bankers have decided that when they shift the chess pieces Saudi Arabia will fall along with the US because something isn't right about this. They are even displaying their torture and murder internationally to a completely unecessary extent. Torture, disappearances and murder are used to intimidate your own populations into docility and there is zero benefit in advertizing it world wide. Things are getting squirrely as all hell.
I TELL YOU ONE THING ...
I wouldn't want to be a civilian living in Yemen now. That situation is going to get much worse.
Another Syria in the making ... atrocties, mass deaths, famine.
Its ok, germany will save them.
Iranians vs Saudis...
I'm with the Iranians on this one.
Merkel should propose Saudi join EU
Meh.
So long as they're killing each other.
good post - plausible.
That set the direction for Human fucking Right.
The head choppers in the Crypt of Saud are desperate, indulging in a catharsis of innocent blood to sate the drooling zombie ghouls Merca calls its second best friends. In 2016 the I$I$ "backed" IOU petroscrip Saudi Mercan dollah finally gets plunged and flushed out of the Ponzi sewer of the chosen racer banksters on Wall St in the Potemkin Village USSAN "economy" as a thousand debauched and blood smeared prince$ flee to USSA, the final refuge of mad dog terror as Saudi is "liberated" and its oil fields burn. The way back to $100 dollah oil; burn the Crypt!
Maybe someone out there, in the world, I don't know who it could be, allied with Iran...possibly decided to use asymmetrical warfare against the USA by toppling the house of Saud. Shake things up a bit. Throttle the oil market. Crash the dollar or send it soaring depending on agenda. Or is this just typical time and memorial Shiite, Sunni violence?
I don't know just spit balling here.
Let's see what the magic eight ball says. Ah, chances are very good Indeed.
Well now.....
All the Iranians have to do, now that sanctions are lifted, is open the tap and get WTI down to 10 bucks.
The house of Saud will be gone in 18 months.
Squid
This is all leading up to a full Alien disclosure that will rock the entire fabric of the world as we know it……
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2016/01/top-secret-alien-ph...
I think that Iranians are too smart to fall for this false-flag made for TV regime stunt again. This is not 1979 you know and Khomeini is long dead.
Anything that sticks a donkey's dick into Iran's ass is a good thing.
Interesting videos ... one shot from the street (RT), the other from behind the police line (who?)
Well, seems like "whom the Gods wish to destroy" does not only apply to petrodollar's timeline.
The strategic handshake around OIl in 1945 is gonna bring about the demise of Saud's kingdom and the enflamed Sunni Jihad it has preached all over Islam's swathe. Not by the Infidel alone but also by internal Fitna !
The Talibanism of Afghan/Paki Madrassas, fed on CIa money and "great game chessboarding", having used that region to spike the Soviet invasion, paid back huge dividends in the demise of Soviet Power; in the concomitant rise of NWO, as the other Commie pillar of China ping-ponged into Deng Xiaoping's open arm approach to America's outsourcing mantra.
Until the NWO hubris, the derivatives toxic soup and the Saudi Islamic ramp up of Sunni intolerance led to the head on confrontation in post 2001 Crusader clash of civilization to complete US Oligarchy's hold on surrogate Oil patch; all the while bending over backwards to Saud's ruling class.
Some "one eyed jackassing" by the Neo-con Oligarchs who thought they could have their Oil cake and eat their derivative fiat " debt-baked" bonanza profits, all for a song sung by the silent proletariats of outsourcing body factories.
Rude awakening in 2008. Black swans by droves and now Sauds chanting : "I wanna be Sunni and nobody can tell me whom NOT to behead!....And when it aint me it'll be my Sunni legions of Raqa or of Erdogan, to kill both Infidel and Shia apostate!"
Well there you have it the two rotten planks of the 1945 handshake's legacy.
Catch 22 Neo-cons and Sauds, your common but now divergent alliance will bring down both planks !
IRan rising and what can Potus do about his balancing act ?
<-- Saudis r inviting themselves to be nuked