Iranian Protesters Attack Saudi Embassy After Shiite Cleric Executed [W: #24]

Iranian Protesters Attack Saudi Embassy After Prominent Shiite Cleric Executed

01/02/2016

Iranians attacked and set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran

Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday morning as Shi'ite Muslim Iran reacted with fury to Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric. Demonstrators who had massed at the embassy gates to protest at Nimr al-Nimr's execution broke into the embassy and started fires before being cleared away by the police, Iran's ISNA news agency reported. Pictures were tweeted that showed parts of the interior on fire and smashed furniture inside one office.

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With Syria the proxy battleground ...a considerable/growing amount of enmity is building between these neighboring regimes.

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Iraq is pissed too and some in their government are calling for severed ties with Riyadh.

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I predict Saudi Arabia, while still jockeying for more power at the UN... on the Human Rights Council, will round up more "detractors" at home and execute them after terribly unfair trials... assuming they even get one.

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Needs some music to go along.

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Montecresto said:

Iraq is pissed too and some in their government are calling for severed ties with Riyadh.

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Every Shia Muslim on this planet is pissed off at Saudi Arabia. I predict that The Saudi's will regret killing Sheikh Nimr once they see what it's going to cost them.

But you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube once you've squeezed it out.

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Montecresto said:

Iraq is pissed too and some in their government are calling for severed ties with Riyadh.

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well that's to be expected they are a client state of Iran.

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Now that the Saudis are breaking diplomatic ties with Iran I have started a thread in the Mid East Politics forum. Anyone who is knowledgeable about this subject please come down and give your thoughts on the ramifications of this latest escalation of the conflict between Sunni and Shia.

Thanks

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Hawkeye10 said:

Now that the Saudis are breaking diplomatic ties with Iran I have started a thread in the Mid East Politics forum. Anyone who is knowledgeable about this subject please come down and give your thoughts on the ramifications of this latest escalation of the conflict between Sunni and Shia.

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Might want to add anyone who isn't banned from posting there.

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Natan said:

Might want to add anyone who isn't banned from posting there.

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Ya, I am very new here and dont know about stuff like that. The rules did take my breath away, I can well see how a lot of people got banned.

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OrphanSlug said:

I predict Saudi Arabia, while still jockeying for more power at the UN... on the Human Rights Council, will round up more "detractors" at home and execute them after terribly unfair trials... assuming they even get one.

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Maybe so, but if one is going to advocate multiculturalism, that means respecting the laws of other countries. Those people executed were tried and convicted, under the law. What was done to the embassy is just an excuse of the extremists, as they kill people without a trial.

These people know the law, and all these countries execute people for similar crimes.

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The Daily Mail uses this nice image of white ISIS/black ISIS:

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Natan said:

Might want to add anyone who isn't banned from posting there.

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U Banned from there?

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JANFU said:

U Banned from there?

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If it amuses you, yes, for one year. I wonder how many other people.

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shrubnose said:

Every Shia Muslim on this planet is pissed off at Saudi Arabia. I predict that The Saudi's will regret killing Sheikh Nimr once they see what it's going to cost them.

But you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube once you've squeezed it out.

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I hope this is soothed diplomatically, but Saudi Arabia has the fourth largest military budget...........in the world.

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Montecresto said:

I hope this is soothed diplomatically, but Saudi Arabia has the fourth largest military budget...........in the world.

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Luckily for Iran, military competence is not always linearly proportional with budget.

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Soho gator said:

well that's to be expected they are a client state of Iran.

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Wtf! Oh that's right, they got George Bushed. Iraq certainly didn't use to be a client to Iran.

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Natan said:

Luckily for Iran, military competence is not always linearly proportional with budget.

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True enough, but war between Iran and Saudi Arabia won't be lucky for either.

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Natan said:

If it amuses you, yes, for one year. I wonder how many other people.

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Nope- no amusement. Tight rules for very good reason.

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shrubnose said:

Every Shia Muslim on this planet is pissed off at Saudi Arabia. I predict that The Saudi's will regret killing Sheikh Nimr once they see what it's going to cost them.

But you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube once you've squeezed it out.

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What are you talking about? Iran does this to Sunni's and other minorities all the time.

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JANFU said:

Nope- no amusement. Tight rules for very good reason.

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Perhaps. Duration of banning is excessive and appeal is useless.

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Lord of Planar said:

Maybe so, but if one is going to advocate multiculturalism, that means respecting the laws of other countries. Those people executed were tried and convicted, under the law. What was done to the embassy is just an excuse of the extremists, as they kill people without a trial.

These people know the law, and all these countries execute people for similar crimes.

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Not accurate at all, Multiculturalism is about several cultural or ethnic groups within a single society all respecting one another. Canada is the best example we have, which is to say the closest to that point.

Respecting the "laws of other countries" then becomes a matter of respecting (or not) that nation. We should be questioning any government, like Saudi Arabia, with such questionable due process who also happens to want even more power at the UN using the Human Rights Council to obtain it. These 47 people they executed, some for very questionable reasons, was bound to get a response. At the same time it would be absent of all reality to suggest Iran has all that better of a due process oriented system of law. Executions for questionable crimes exist in both nations.

This conversation we are having shows quite well why we have such a confusing and hypocritical foreign policy BTW.

Anyway, Iran and Saudi Arabia have had troubled relations for long enough that it is elementary to show neither one really respects the other. Saudi Arabia has been hard on Shia Muslims, and Iran has been hard on Sunni Muslims. Very little is going to end that, we are talking about a splinter that is deep within the Muslim culture itself. Moreover we are talking about a couple of ideological ran nations here where listening to the rhetoric from "religious leadership" ends in this sort of behavior.

Our issue is further degrade of relations across the Middle East, and how often Saudi Arabia acts in a manner completely inconsistent with any sense of Human Rights. Yet, we continue to support them.

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Respect has more than one meaning.

a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way

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Respect | Definition of Respect by Merriam-Webster

It doesn't mean you have to like them. You just have to act appropriate around them.

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OrphanSlug said:

Our issue is further degrade of relations across the Middle East, and how often Saudi Arabia acts in a manner completely inconsistent with any sense of Human Rights. Yet, we continue to support them.

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You are correct about this, and other things, when applying our cultural standards. the problem with most people is they don't care about what other people believe in, and in that way, you disrespect them. that is why they see us as the great Satan. We are always disrespecting their customs. Understanding your enemy is the first step of defeating them and we will always fail as long as we don't understand that motivates them to do as they do.

Using our ideals of fairness, is why the middle east is in such bad shape. Believing like you do is why there are so many deaths over there, because we interfere without understand what the aftermath of our actions are.

They are a brutal society. Brutality of their leaders is what keep the greater peace over there instead of the anarchy of killings.

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OrphanSlug said:

Not accurate at all, Multiculturalism is about several cultural or ethnic groups within a single society all respecting one another. Canada is the best example we have, which is to say the closest to that point.

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What is ironic, is many of you don't see the truth.

Libya had multiculturalism, so did Syria. Now look at them after our interference, and letting the radicals take over.

Now I don't know if other religions are tolerated in Saudi Arabia, and my use of multiculturalism might not extend as I thought, but it is wrong to make judgements of other nations without knowing more facts than we generally do.