"Death To Saudi Arabia": Thousands Of Iranians Pour Into The Streets In Anti-Saudi Protests

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It’s now been nearly a week since Saudi Arabia set the Muslim world on fire (both figuratively and literally) by executing prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

The Sheikh was a leading figure in the 2011 anti-government protests staged in the kingdom’s Eastern Province and when the House of Saud moved to silence a dissident voice once in for all last Saturday, demonstrators poured into the streets from Bahrain to Pakistan to decry the execution.

For the Saudis, Nimr is a “terrorist,” but for the Shiite community he has now become a symbol of the oppression embodied by the Sunni Gulf monarchies. For those interested in a bit of background, here are some excerpts from The Atlantic:

The State Department cable added Nimr was gaining popularity among young people. His stature grew in spring 2009, after Shia pilgrims clashed with security forces in Medina over access to holy sites; Nimr denounced the security forces, but then was forced to go into hiding to avoid arrest. By January 2010, the State Department reported in another cable that Nimr had returned home and was living under something like house arrest. The diplomat, who wrote that cable, judged that Nimr had overestimated his sway, gone too big, and as a result had lost his influence. A neighbor said that the government “chose not to pursue him further out of concern they would elevate his status.”

 

The government changed its ignore-them-and-they’ll-go-away stance on Shia rabble-rousers once the Arab Spring began. In Bahrain, Shia protests threatened the stability of the regime, and the Sunni regimes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent troops to help quell uprisings. But protests also spread from Bahrain into the kingdom. Nimr preached forcefully against the regime, and was rare in speaking up both in favor of the domestic protests and those in Bahrain.

 

In another 2011 speech, Nimr said, “From the day I was born and to this day, I’ve never felt safe or secure in this country. We are not loyal to other countries or authorities, nor are we loyal to this country. What is this country? The regime that oppresses me? The regime that steals my money, sheds my blood, and violates my honor?”

 

That was all too much for the regime, and in 2012 it moved to arrest him. But during his apprehension, police claimed they came under fire. Nimr was shot in the leg. He was charged with sedition and various terrorism-related crimes.

In the six days since his death, Saudi Arabia and its allies have been busy cutting all ties (both diplomatic and commercial) with Iran. “Enough is enough”, was the message from Riyadh after protesters firebombed the Saudi embassy in Tehran last Saturday.

Now, with tensions running higher than ever, the feud threatens to derail a fragile peace “process” in Syria on the way to plunging the region into an all-out sectarian shooting war.

Each side accuses the other of being a state sponsor of terror and each side blames the other for fomenting sectarian discord. Needless to say, it’s difficult to look past the fact that Saudi Arabia’s promotion of Wahhabism is almost unquestionably to blame for the rise of extremist elements throughout the Islamic World. At the very least, Riyadh’s contention that Iran promotes sectarian strife is an egregious case of the pot calling the kettle black.

In any event, Iranians are in no mood to forgive and forget. "Iranians held mass protests on Friday across the Islamic Republic, angered by Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shiite cleric that has enflamed regional tensions between the Mideast rivals," AP reports, adding that "after Friday prayers in Tehran, thousands of worshippers joined the rally, carrying pictures of al-Nimr and chanting "Death to Al Saud," referencing the kingdom's royal family." They also chanted "down with the US" and "death to Israel."

Below, find the visuals which underscore the fact that the sense of outrage is palpable - to say the least.

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Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:40 | 7020496 Demdere
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The Israelis are real tight with the Saudis.

Recall where the 'hijacker' patsies came from in the Israeli-Neocon 9/11 FF operation?  Israelis are flying in Yemen for the Saudis I believe I heard.

I think Israeli 'assistance' for the Saudis will be as fatal for them as it has been for our representative government, but ...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:18 | 7021961 jm
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The Israelis are not tight with the Saudis. They have an agreement to tolerate each other and not attack each other because they also have a common enemy, which makes for temporary alliances. Israel's biggest concern is Hamas. Saudi concerns are with Iran.

Israel will assist in putting lunatic jihadis from all over the peninsula (ISIS) in harm's way all day long if it kills off Hamas.  But trust me, Israel knows ISIS is absolute scum and smiles while thinking "Hamas corpses? Good. ISIS corpses? Just as good."

Sunnis and Shiites just playing their deadly game with each other since the days of Ayesha and Ali's Battle of the Humped Camel. The rest of the world just uses the hate. 

 

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:45 | 7020533 jomama
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Kinda tough to be sick of your own private vassal state. Unless you hate free revenue, dictating whatever policy you like, and cover for your incessant terrorism.

Wait, were you being serious?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:02 | 7020012 Bill of Rights
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Sounds exciting ... but then again talk is cheap

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:05 | 7020022 Francis Marx
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I would guess the iranian government must promise these people something to protest.... Their life?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:08 | 7020037 highwaytoserfdom
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Seem to remember some embassy problem during in 1980 caused by Peanut farmer sending armies to Osma Bin Lauden to shoot up Russians before invading Afghanistan of course...  nothing new..  What is new is the trolls. It the Banksters and the authoritarians

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/original-chechnya-bombers-cia-s...

 

 

really who has moral ground here?     I give up..

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:46 | 7020169 Sanity Bear
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Who has moral ground? Right now... Vladmir Putin. End of list.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:53 | 7020187 nmewn
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Morality is such an out moded culturally Marxist reality, don't you think? ;-)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 22:09 | 7020244 Proctologist
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Ahh....

"From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his bleed?"

Good thing our crooked politicians are all amoral.

/s

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:51 | 7020181 nmewn
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"Death to Saudi Arabia!"

lol...now see? This is what the mind numbed nationalist robots used to chant on que about us! Change you can believe in baby!!!

#MartyrBrigadesLivesMatter ;-) 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:24 | 7020581 Buster Cherry
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You should see a Quannel-X protest march.

 

(yeah, OK, it's a non event. Please understand that we don't let things get out of hand here in Houston)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:16 | 7020589 Otrader
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The last sign should've read "Death to Israel, Free America!"

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:58 | 7020197 Schroedingers Cat
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Iranian don't chant "Death to _______".  It's a blatant mistranslation.  A better translation is "down with _______"    Netanyahu is infamous for this exaggeration.  The America media FOX in particular repeat this lie endlessly.  If FOX says it, don't believe it.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 22:02 | 7020216 nmewn
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The fact that the Iranian government can get a group of people together on an hours notice to chant Death To Anyone is...how should I put it...pathologically weird?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:22 | 7020455 silverer
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It's awesome.  Americans have had their passion drained away by 40 years of propaganda and salty pototo chips.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 22:20 | 7020275 Berspankme
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House of Saudomy to fall soon?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:20 | 7020453 silverer
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Now the Iranians are really making sense.  No wonder the US administration doesn't like them.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:50 | 7020523 jomama
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'Now'?! Have you not been paying attention for the last, you know, decade???

 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:22 | 7020456 Joe A
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SA wants the Sunni world and the rest of the world to go to war with their arch enemy, Shia Iran (Arabs and Persians have always had a difficult relationship). The thing is, the rest of the Sunni world is not really eager to do this. For they consider SA not really Sunni but rather Wahabist. Remember how a few weeks ago SA announced they formed a Sunni coalition against IS (while SA being one of the main supporters of IS)? Egypt and other Sunni countries then said "huh? lolwut?"

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:48 | 7020515 jomama
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Here is what the man that is supposedly going to make American 'great' again represents:

Silently protesting Muslim woman ejected from Trump rally

 

Greatness can never be built on hatred.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:43 | 7020539 Buster Cherry
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My bet is she was doing some kind of stupid shit that drew attention to herself.

It would probably help if they were to try to assimilate and adapt until they become fully Americanized. Plenty of other immigrants have done just that.

If this musloid can't leave the  old country and its barbaric customs behind at the dock, then shit on her.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/11/08/shock-video-palestinian-muslim-woma...

 

When I see a musloid woman dressed head to toe in a solid black burka loading the kids and groceries in the car, during a Texas July afternoon without fainting....you bet I think that bitch is covering up a suicide vest. Of course, she could also be facing this kind of shit if she doesn't wear it:

https://www.mrconservative.com/2015/08/63710-graphic-muslim-mob-attacks-...

 

These people are savages.

 

Edit: When you show up to a Trump rally dressed in an enemy costume, sporting a star of david with the label "muslim" written across it, then a reasonable person could conclude she was there to start shit.

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:44 | 7020643 jomama
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Your post is so goddamned ignorant I can't even bring myself to finish reading it.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 01:05 | 7020694 Buster Cherry
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Well, it is getting late.

Goodnite.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:28 | 7020616 Joe A
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So, you go to somebody's event, stand up in protest and then expect the public not to react? She came to provoke and then plays the victim. And CNN with their hipster reporter of course loves it.

Go to mosque and try to promote liberal values. Let's see how far you will come.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:42 | 7020636 jomama
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"Let's see how far you will come"  - Huh?

 

This isn't Saudi Arabia. I don't know about mosques in your region, but many on the several continents I've been on are quite tolerant.

 

How many mosques have you visited in other countries did you say again?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:49 | 7020653 Buster Cherry
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Who the fuck in their right mind would roll the dice on "muslim tolerance"????

https://www.mrconservative.com/2015/08/63710-graphic-muslim-mob-attacks-...

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:53 | 7020670 jomama
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Maybe someone who's got a much bigger perspective than yourself. This isn't representative as Islam as a whole, but I know those words are wasted on the likes of you. I'd ask you to compare it to violence rates domestically, and compare that against low standards of living and constant drone bombing,,, but fuck it. You still wouldn't get it.

How far out of the trailer park did you say you ventured that one time again?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 01:02 | 7020690 Buster Cherry
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How far out of the trailer park did you say you ventured that one time again?

 

That's funny. I liked that.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 02:29 | 7020813 Early Retirement
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Suck my uncut cock.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 05:48 | 7020955 messystateofaffairs
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Muslim tolerance, mexican tolerance, nigger tolerance, japanese tolerance, faggot tolerance, red injun tolerace, cloward-piven tolerance. Mix any two disparate cultures together at the correct critical mass and do a little false flagging in between to help things along and bam, you got war, Hegelian dialect style.

One sensible thing The Donald™ is saying is we have to slow down all this high powered cultural mixing, probably to give America a chance to remember who she was trying to be. Slow way down to assimilate, not to crash and burn in order to execute some psychopathic tribes agenda.

In the meantime try not to be somebody's useful idiot bitch.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 02:28 | 7020812 Early Retirement
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Lying Jew.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 05:33 | 7020948 messystateofaffairs
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Well it beats blowing up Yemeni children by an American ally supplied with American cluster bomb munitions. All kinds of ways to get folks attentions, everybody gets to use their creativity.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:32 | 7020625 besnook
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i don't know that a real muslim would wear a star of david.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:42 | 7020639 jomama
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I know it's fucking crazy to imagine, but believe it or not, we're all just humans.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:46 | 7020646 Buster Cherry
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Are you a Swedish multicultural feminist?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:50 | 7020657 jomama
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I'm sure it would make you feel vindicated if I were, but I'm also sure it's way beyond your comprehension to understand what's fucked up about that.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:57 | 7020678 Buster Cherry
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Not looking for vindication madame, just wondering why this obvious enemy agitator has your sympathy.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 05:25 | 7020940 messystateofaffairs
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Well clearly the jews got your brain in their bag. Don't worry you are far from alone in Jewmerica. Continue to fuck with other nations and rail indignantly at their very understandable anger as your own anger grows. Soon your sons will sign up or be duty bound to conscription and go and fight the good war in the service of those who will thank you with Shalom.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 08:00 | 7021108 Wahooo
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We're all just primates. Some are human, some are not.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:56 | 7020676 Sanity Bear
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If there's one red flag that demonstrates that someone is grossly dishonest, it's accusing the other side of a debate of being motivated by hatred.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 00:13 | 7020582 besnook
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i thought there were only 3 actual saudis in saudi arabia and the rest were philipino and indian with a few white guys hanging around.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 07:59 | 7021103 Wahooo
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Handful of oil guys and the rest are hookers.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 02:03 | 7020780 Ward no. 6
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the Sasanians were the last iranian empire b4 the not so wonderful rise of fucking islam

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 02:14 | 7020797 Ward no. 6
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anyway i know a few ppl from Iran and they get pissed when ppl call them arabs..

they take pride in thinking they are persians, but are they really???

They are arabs from the past who conquered Iran and that is why it is an islamic country

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 02:29 | 7020815 bunnyswanson
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One on one, we all get along.  Only thing in our away is wearing our emotions on our sleeves in an impolite society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4

One million views - Robert Welsh - 9 min Mind blowing speech of a plan to weaken the US infrastructure via covert methods and bankrupt the American economy 

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 03:12 | 7020850 smacker
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"They are arabs from the past who conquered Iran and that is why it is an islamic country"

You are wrong.

Modern day Iranians are descendants of Persians and their history is well traced in many places. No links to Arabs in their history.

Here's what Wiki has to say about them:

"The origin of the ethnic Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of the greater Indo-European language family. The Ancient Iranian peoples emerged in parts of the Iranian plateau circa 1000 BCE. Important Iranian tribes such as the Old Persians, Medes, Parthians, Sarmatians, Alans, Bactrians, Scythians, and the Avesta people used the name Arya (Iranian), which was a collective definition, denoting peoples who were aware of belonging to a generally common ethnic stock, speaking very closely related languages, and mainly sharing a religious tradition that centered on the worship of Ahura Mazda"

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 02:27 | 7020810 Ward no. 6
Sat, 01/09/2016 - 07:58 | 7021099 Wahooo
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Muslims prey on weakness.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 02:51 | 7020833 smacker
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""They also chanted "down with the US" and "death to Israel.""

Add to that the final sample picture above that reads "Down With Israel" and it looks like Iranians are ahead of the game in knowing that the Saudi "Royal" family are historically closely related to the jews of Israel aka "saudi crypto jews" and "saudi jewish roots".

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 08:00 | 7021105 Last of the Mid...
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Saudi having to deal with problems they have fucking created over the last 50 years by themselves. What a fucking shame. Might try spraying them with that oil and lighting 'em up.

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