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Tehran, SANA- Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Saudi Arabia should not try to cover up its big misdeed by cutting ties with Tehran.
Iran’s News Agency IRNA quoted Abdollahian as saying the decision made by the Saudi Arabian officials to cut relations with Iran will not cover up the grave mistake they did in martyring outstanding religious scholars.
Abdollahian’s statement was made following an announcement by Saudi foreign ministry Sunday on cutting all diplomatic relations with Iran.
He said Saudi Arabia has earlier records of creating insecurity in the region by making strategic mistakes and adopting hasty and unwise policies which have led to expansion of terrorism and extremism.
It also inflicted economic damage to Muslim nations of the region by hatching the plot of reducing oil prices.
He further noted that Saudi Arabia also played a non-constructive and disparaging role during Iran’s nuclear talks with the 5+1.
Abdollahian said the latest mistake of the Saudi government was the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr who was a prestigious religious scholar esteemed by the whole Islamic world not a specific country.
Saudi regime on Saturday announced the execution of 47 people, including Sheikh al-Nimr on different alleged charges
Earlier Sunday, Al Saud regime’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced that Riyadh severed its diplomatic relations with Tehran one day after the government and people of Iran protested to execution of Sheikh al-Nimr.
Jubeir told reporters in Riyadh that Iranian diplomats were asked to leave the country within 48 hours.
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