Saudi embassy attacked in Tehran: news agency

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Tehran (AFP) - Angry crowds protesting at Saudi Arabia's execution of a top Shiite cleric hurled petrol bombs and stormed the kingdom's embassy in Tehran Saturday before being cleared out by police, ISNA news agency reported.

The incident came hours after the announcement of the death of 56-year-old cleric Nimr al-Nimr, who had been a key figure in anti-government protests in the kingdom's oil-rich east. The execution prompted strong condemnation from Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-embassy-attacked-tehran-news-agency-221236349.html

[jonno99]

1. Methinks the Saudis will rue the day they executed this cleric...nt

[underpants]

2. They let their weird Wahhabi cousins go on and on

For a millennia. Guess what, your hand-holding family friends opened up a country for them to do what they always wanted to do.

[oberliner]

3. This could get very ugly very quickly

The last thing the world needs is an escalated conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

[JI7]

4. i think much of the problems in that part is about the Sunni v shia

Thing.

[rjsquirrel]

5. You think?

Insightful!

[Ilsa]

10. No need to be be this way.

You'd be surprised how many people don't know about these differences, especially visitors to DU. Not everyone has the luxury of paying attention to everything in the news, or the ability to analyse it. I don't mind if DUers occasionally simplify issues for others.

[dhol82]

6. And the Saudis are surprised?

Schmucks.

[get the red out]

7. They are such assholes

That they can't smell their shit.

[7962]

8. Maybe they'll go at each other. That'd be interesting.

Iranians more fanatical, Saudis better equipped & trained

[Bernin]

9. Saudis better trained

Thanks for the laugh.
Here's a tidbit. The Saudis have lost 10 military ships to Yemen. Yemen has NO navy!

[7962]

11. Most iranian forces are cannon fodder

If there were a ground war. I doubt that would happen. The Saudis would definitely have air superiority
Again, it would be interesting and WE wouldnt have to be in the middle of it

Let the Baptists & methodists fight it out

[daleo]

12. I think the U.S. would get involved, backing the Saudis

TPTB would wnat to support the Saudis - they have more oil.

[7962]

14. I'm sure we'd be involved, but I doubt with manpower

Just like we backed Iraq during their war with Iran. had that war going on for 10 yrs with nothing coming out of it but population reduction

[daleo]

16. I knew an Iranian grad student (in Canada) who was drafted into that war

It sounded awful, not that he went into details. He was very secular by the time I met him, he just got conscripted into a war he had no desire to fight in.

[7962]

18. I believe most were probably in the same boat

Just like Russia's military today is mostly conscripts of less than 2 yrs.
Glad we did away with the draft here

[Bernin]

13. Hopefully

we would not get involved.
But, our neocons have not found a conflict yet they don't want to participate. I think the Russians would certainly level the field for the Iranians especially in the air..

Personally, I rather we buy oil from Russia than any of these middle eastern countries.

[daleo]

17. Or stick to North American oil

Of which, there seems to be plenty.

North America could use these sources, while transitioning to renewables. Though they are technically higher CO2 sources than middle east oil, the decoupling from military entanglements would balance that out. A bloated military consumes a lot of oil, and produces a lot of CO2.

[roamer65]

15. The Great ME war begins this year.

Mark my words.