Saudi Arabia will pay "a high price" for executing prominent Shia cleric
Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday, Iran’s foreign ministry said.
Ministry spokesperson Hossein Jaber Ansari strongly condemned the
execution, which came after his Shia country repeatedly asked its
Sunni-ruled rival to pardon the cleric. See more of the story...
"The Saudi government supports terrorist movements and extremists, but
confronts domestic critics with oppression and execution... the Saudi
government will pay a high price for following these policies," he said,
quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
Nimr, 56, was a driving force of the protests that broke out in 2011 in
Eastern Province, where the Shia minority of Saudi Arabia complains of
marginalisation.
"The execution of a figure like Sheikh al-Nimr, who had no means to
follow his political and religious goals but through speaking out,
merely shows the extent of irresponsibility & imprudence," said
Ansari.
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