Press TV- People have staged separate demonstrations in Bahrain to voice their continued support for the cause championed by Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, a Saudi Shia cleric who was executed by Saudi Arabian authorities one year ago. On Monday, demonstrators took to the streets in the northern village of al-Musalla on the western outskirts of the ...

Tehran, April 19, The Iran Project - 100 days have passed since Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr along with 47 others on January 2, in defiance with international calls for the release of the top religious figure and other jailed political dissidents. Shia Muslims have long complained of discrimination in a country ...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir defended the execution of a prominent Shia cleric earlier this month, brushing off claims that he was a religious scholar and labeling him a terrorist. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Nimr al-Nimr was among47 convicted prisoners Riyadh had executed inearly January, prompting a violent backlash inIran towhich Saudi ...

Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia cleric last week, almost certainly designed to provoke a response from Iran, indicates a growing desperation among the Saudis to demonize Tehran, as the House of Saud's grip on both its own people and the region comes under threat, historian Saeed Khan suggests. The simmering conflict betweenSaudi Arabia ...

Tehran, Jan 9, IRNA The US newspaper New York Times said that the execution of the popular Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other prisoners was about the worst way Saudi Arabia could have started what promises to be a grim and tumultuous year in the kingdom and across the Middle East. The newspaper said, It is hard to imagine that the Sunni ...

Desperation does not even begin to describe the current plight of the House of Saud. Riyadh was fully aware the beheading ofrespected Saudi Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr was a deliberate provocation bound toelicit a rash Iranian response. The Saudis calculated they could get away withit; afterall they employ the best American PR machine petrodollars ...

Turkey has summoned Irans ambassador over the spread of reports by Iranian media drawing a connection between the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, and the execution of a top Iranian Shia Cleric by Saudi Arabia, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. MOSCOW (Sputnik) Erdogan visited Saudi Arabia ...

Tehran, Jan 8, IRNA Saudi Arabia started 2016 shamefully by carrying out its largest mass execution since 1980, putting 47 men to death on Jan. 2. Among them were at least four prominent Shia activists, including a leader of the kingdom's Shia minority, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The killings have spurred a new round of tensions between Saudi Arabia and ...

Protest rallies rage on inSaudi Arabia's Eastern Province, raising the specter of wider unrest inthe important oil-rich region. Since Saturday's execution of prominent clericSheikh Nimr and three other ShiaMuslims, hundreds or thousands of peoplehave marched nightly in protest. "People are angry. And they are surprised, because there were ...

Mashhad, Jan 6, IRNA International advisor to Majlis (Iranian parliament) speaker Hossein Sheikholeslam condemned the execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr Baqir al-Nimr by the Saudi government. 'The Saudi attempt in killing Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr was to inflame the war between Shia and Sunni and turning it into Muslim world' main problem,' Sheikholeslam ...

Saudi Arabias mass execution of 47 people on Saturday sparked an international outcry. According to a leaked memo obtained by The Independent, Riyadh was fully aware of this possibility, ordering security services to cancel holiday plans to be on full alert. The Saudi governments decision toexecute 47 people ina single day has drawn considerable ...

The Jan.2 execution of Saudi Shiite cleric and political activist Nimr al-Nimrhas escalated sectarian hostilities in the Middle East to dangerous new levels. Following the sacking of a Saudi embassy in Iran, Saudi Arabia has severed ties with Iran and expelled its diplomats. Tensions are running high, with apocalyptic rhetoric on all sides. However,...

Beneath this weekend's rupture in Iranian-Saudi relations lies a deeper fault line between the United States and Saudi Arabia that may hamper U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to end Syria's civil war, current and former U.S. officials said. The Saudi government's decision to execute Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday, despite U.S. ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Saudi Arabias severing of diplomatic relations with Iran is"deeply worrying." "The Secretary General reiterated that the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran was deplorable, but added that the announcement of a break in Saudi diplomatic relations with Tehran was deeply worrying," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric ...

Riyadh's execution of Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was timed to coincide with the expected lifting of anti-Iranian sanctions and the rejuvenation of the Syrian peace process. Saudi Arabia just beheaded a prominent anti-government activist and Shia cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, ontrumped-up charges of "terrorism", executing him alongsidesuspected al Qaeda fighters....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The latest developments after Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with Tehran amid a dispute over Riyadh's execution of an opposition Shia cleric and attacks on Saudi diplomatic posts in Iran. (All times local.) 11:40 p.m. Turkey has urged both Saudi Arabia and Iran to ease tensions, saying the Middle East region is "already ...

Dr. Abdolamir Nabavi says he believes the execution of Nimr was part of a ploy by hardliners both inside the kingdom and outside to muddy the waters and render relations with Iran tense. By executing prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi authorities seek to illustrate their determination to take on Iran, an Iranian history researcher and political ...

Tehran, Jan 4, IRNA Cutting ties with Iran is detriment to Riyadh not to Tehran, First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said here Monday. At a local ceremony this morning, Jahangiri advised Saudi Arabia to avoid further sabotage. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced on Sunday that Riyadh severed its diplomatic relations with Tehran one ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned against the repercussionsof extremism in the Middle East region following Saudi Arabias execution of a top Shia cleric. Zarif held separate phone conversationson Sunday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini as well as a number of foreign ...

US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says the United States should ask Saudi Arabia "serious questions, following the Saudi regimes execution of 47 people, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqiral-Nimr. "Clearly this raises serious questions that we have to raise directly with the Saudi government," Clinton said on Sunday during ...