Iranian Protesters Storm Saudi Consulate in Mashad After Execution of Shi'ite Cleric

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: Haaretz

Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Arabian consulate in Mashad Saturday night, hours after Saudi Arabia executed Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric, and 46 other prisoners.

Pictures circulating on social media show protesters scaling the consulate fence and taking down the Saudi flag.

Saudi Arabia executed Nimr alongside dozens of Al-Qaida members on Saturday, signaling intolerance of jihadism and minority Shi'ite Muslim violence while stirring a rise in sectarian tensions across the region.

Lebanon's Supreme Islamic Shi'ite Council called Nimr's execution a "grave mistake", and the Hezbollah group termed it an assassination as Shi'ites took to the streets in protest from Tehran to Kashmir.


Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.695063

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[pwhtckll]

1. So much for low gas prices

It's not outside the realm of possibility that Iran's proxies (e.g., Hezbollah) could punish the Saudi regime in retaliation by, for example, attacking Saudi Arabia's petroleum infrastructure.

A terrorist attack on the oil industry alone would be enough to drive up prices but an attack that reduces the supply (when oversupply is what drives prices down) could cause oil to spike.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Oil consumption and profits have driven political

action for a century. I'm sick and tired on being dependent on Oligarchs, dictators and religious fanatics.

Clean, renewable energy is the bane. It's worth the cost in the short term for long term independence.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

3. Saudi embassy in Tehran on fire after stormed by protesters over execution of Shiite leader al-Nimr

RIGHT NOW: Saudi embassy in Tehran on fire after stormed by protesters over execution of Shiite leader al-Nimr
https://twitter.com/Hassanvand/status/683397841553723392

Saudi Embassy in Tehran on fire. Impossible for the Kingdom rulers not to know they'd get this reaction.
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/683399371984076801

[daleo]

4. "signaling intolerance of jihadism" - as if

Saudi Arabia seems ok with the right kind of jihadism - i.e. their kind.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

5. Embassy Attacked After Muslim Cleric Executed

Embassy Attacked After Muslim Cleric Executed

The Saudi embassy in Tehran has come under attack from petrol bomb throwers amid a backlash against the execution of a prominent Shia cleric.

Video footage posted on Twitter shows molotov cocktails hitting the front of the mission and other pictures posted since appear to show the building on fire.

There was fierce criticism of Saudi Arabia after it executed 47 people at prisons around the country including Nimr al Nimr.

http://news.sky.com/story/1615553/embassy-attacked-after-muslim-cleric-executed

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6. Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-executes-47-sheikh-nimr-shiite-cleric.html

Iranian protesters ransacked and set fire to 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.

[alfredo]

7. Let's see who has the strongest military.

Who will we support?

[The Wizard]

8. Seems like old times in Iran, 1979

And what about Benghazi and that stained blue dress. I anxiously await Pox News attack on the Clintons for this.

[bdwker]

9. They are not too happy.

That was a big mistake.