TEHRAN (Tasnim) � Iran�s Foreign Ministry has argued against changing the name of a street where the Saudi Arabian embassy sits to Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shiite cleric that Riyadh executed on January 2, a city councilor said.

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Mojtaba Shakeri said the Foreign Ministry has called on the Municipality of Tehran in a written request to overturn the renaming of the street, and give it back its previous name, Boustan.

After Saudi Arabia�s execution of Sheikh Nimr, Shakeri explained, a wave of requests poured in for changing the name of the street near the Saudi embassy to �Martyr Ayatollah Nimr al-Nimr�, so the City Council began to consider it in an urgent motion.

Afterwards, people of Tehran replaced the street name sign �in a spontaneous move� with a new one that reads Ayatollah Nimr, he noted.



By Tasnim News Agency