KABUL: (MEP) Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani says Saudi Arabia cannot “cover up” its crime of executing a leading Shia cleric by cutting diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Rouhani said, Saudi Arabia, even as the kingdom’s allies began limiting their links to his country.
The Saudi government has taken a strange action and cut off its diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran to cover its crimes of beheading a religious leader in its country, Rouhani added.
“Undoubtedly, such actions can’t cover up that big crime.”
Demonstrations were held in the Iranian capital and other Iranian cities to condemn the killing of Sheikh Nimr as well as other places like Tehran when angry protestors set fire on the Saudi embassy and its consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad by protesters censuring Saudi Arabia.
Addressing journalists Tuesday, Iran’s Vice-President Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said the country’s intelligence services were investigating the diplomatic mission attacks and that police officers who failed to take action to stop the assaults would be prosecuted. Iranian police say at least 50 people already have been arrested over the attack.
On Sunday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced his country was cutting diplomatic relations with Iran.
Recounting Copenhagen’s reaction to Saudi Arabia’s execution, Jensen told President Rouhani that Denmark was the first country to condemn the killing of Nimr.
