Posted on 01/02/2016 3:21:50 PM PST by NRx
Iranian protesters ransacked and set fire to part of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday after Saudi Arabia executed an outspoken Shiite cleric who had criticized the kingdomâs treatment of its Shiite minority.
Protesters broke furniture and smashed windows in an annex to the embassy, said a witness who was reached by telephone from Tehran. The protesters also set fire to the room, said the witness, who would provide only his first name, Abolfazl, because he had been involved in the protest.
The police arrived and cleared the embassy grounds of protesters and extinguished the fire, he said.
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Chopped
What was he executed for? Being the wrong kind of Muslim, or something more serious?
A Saudi-Iranian war? (And ISIS doesn’t like either of them.)
Horrible, dangerous, and disastrous, but interesting.
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