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.
"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.
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"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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