Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric

NY Times ^ | 01-02-2016 | BEN HUBBARD

[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 kingdom’s 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.

[aces]

Mo hamms own family keels each other..lol..awww no

[Fungi]

Ah yes, tolerance and freedom of speech by the keepers of the rock, the “peaceful” religion.

[dfwgator]

Get your popcorn ready.

[shibumi]

"Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel."

Leon Uris, "The Haj"

[jimjohn]

Bacon flavored popcorn.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[cynwoody]

Current Drudge lead: SAUDI EXECUTIONS 'WILL TOPPLE REGIME'.

The linked article quotes Shi'ite Nuri al-Maliki, former Iraq PM.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3379053/posts

[Scrambler Bob]

Describes what I am seeing, perfectly.

US Govt seems to be trying to fine-tune in the ‘cousin - clan - tribe’ area.

I am concerned about ‘all of us against the infidel’

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Shiites vs. Sunnis = Win-Win

[NRx]

I find it odd that the powers that be have determined that this is neither breaking nor front page news, but a campaign rally, presumably with the standard stump speech, is.

[justa-hairyape]

Not when you have no-win Obama as your President and the GOPe as his pal. Those morons have signed an agreement to defend Iranian nuclear sites from attack. So now the US has obligations to defend both sides. Sunni Turkey (NATO) and Shiite Iran (Nuclear agreement). This is what happens when you let cronies run your country.

[Vince Ferrer]

Saudi Arabia is sunni but they have a significant shiite minority.

[Psalm 73]

"I find it odd that the powers that be have determined that this is neither breaking nor front page news..."

I hear ya' - it's one think when the Iranians sack OUR embassy, quite another when the Saudi's are on the receiving end.

[doldrumsforgop]

“Not when you have no-win Obama as your President and the GOPe as his pal. Those morons have signed an agreement to defend Iranian nuclear sites from attack. “

No signed agreements exist.

Simply an understanding, which has no force in any. International venue.

[null and void]

Welcome to FR.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Leon Uris, “The Haj””

Great, great book.... Almost as good as “Shibumi”...LOL

[justa-hairyape]

All that matters is what the Emperor thinks. And he thinks he has a signed treaty with obligations. And his mommy Val Jar will remind him of that.

[353FMG]

Was he chopped or hanged?