Posted on 01/02/2016 6:25:46 PM PST by EBH
Saudi Arabia's mass execution of 47 prisoners — including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr — triggered unrest across the Middle East on Saturday, particularly in Iran, where protesters stormed and ransacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Photos and video footage posted on Twitter by Iranian journalist Sobhan Hassanvand showed a mob of angry demonstrators smashing windows and setting fire to the Saudi diplomatic outpost in the Iranian capital.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi also condemned the executions. "I'm shocked & saddened at Sheikh Nimr's execution by Saudi authorities," he wrote on Twitter. "Peaceful opposition is a fundamental right. Repression does not last."
A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry also condemned the executions, accusing the Saudis of hypocrisy. "The Saudi government supports terrorists and takfiri [radical Sunni] extremists, while executing and suppressing critics inside the country," the spokesman said.
Shiite Muslims also marched through the Qatif district of Saudi Arabia's Eastern province chanting "down with the Al Saud," the name of the Saudi royal family.
Meanwhile, protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Pakistan, Iran, and Bahrain also took to the streets. Protesters in Mashhad, Iran, gathered outside the Saudi consulate building. Photos shared on Twitter suggest that demonstrators scaled the fence surrounding the consulate and removed the Saudi flag flying above it. Unconfirmed reports on social media said that protesters also torched the building.
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HA!
“I’m your huckleberry!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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I got the most pics! :-)
We are witnesses to a shia-sunni world war.
ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Yeman government on one side.
Iran, Iraq, Assad, Hezbollah and the Yeman rebels on the other.
The Kurds, Christians and the Jews will do what they needvto do to survive and will play either side.
Look at the middle East this way and it explains mucho.
Add the U.S. to the side with ISIS and the Saudis..... and Russia to the side with Iran and Assad and you got it nailed.
Obama Cheers on his friends the Iranians
Russia also against Saudi and the other Sunni Gulf States.
Lots of Mooslimbs hate Saudi Arabia and are itching for a reason to take them out.
The Grand Caliphate can only unite Sunni/Shia after the Sunni Saudi Royals are eliminated.
USA Government Brotherhood operatives could get us mixed up in this trying to protect our Saudi “friends”.
Good news bump...now lets see some royal heads roll.
Ah , Saudi Arabia about to go back to were T. E. Lawrence found it ,well it never advanced very far anyway
I noticed none of the major networks mentioned this on their evening news. A couple reported anti Saudi demonstrations in Iran.
Probably did not want to remind us of the Jimmy Carter preidency.
Has Saudi replaced the US as the Great Satan? If not, why not?
Sunny or later Shi’ite will happen! It is the way of TROP.
“Sunna”
Watch Oil price tomorrow.
What most people do not realize is that all of Saudi oil is located in the Easter Province, which is predominantly Shi’ite and that Shi’ites are treated as second class citizens by the Sunni population.
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