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Tuesday 5 January 2016 - 17:54
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Saudi Arabia severing Iran ties wrong policy: Larijani

Saudi Arabia severing Iran ties wrong policy: Larijani
Irans Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani says Saudi Arabias move to rupturerelations with the Islamic Republic was a wrong policy.

In a meeting with Omans Ambassador to Tehran Saud bin Ahmad al-Barwani on Monday, Larijani added that even if a group of people make a move, it should not be regarded as an appropriate reason to cut relations.

Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran on Sunday followingdemonstrations held in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad by angry protesterscensuring the Al Saud family for the killing of the top Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Some people mounted the walls of the consulate in Mashhad while incendiary devices were hurled at the embassy in Tehran. Some 50 people were detained over the transgression.

Amid growing tensions between Tehran and Riyadh, the Saudi foreign minister on Monday said his country would end air traffic and trade links with the Islamic Republic.

Larijani further expressed concern over the ongoing developments in the region, saying, Under the currentcircumstances, measures are unfortunately takenin the region which are detrimental to the Muslim Ummah and beneficial to the Zionists.

He emphasized that terrorism is a major problem in the region and said the Saudi government does not realizethat its military campaign against Yemen leads to spread of terrorism. Yemen has been under Saudi's unrelenting bombardmentsince March 2015.

The top Iranian parliamentarian added that Saudi Arabias killing of a prominent Shia cleric had no justification.

Sheikh Nimr, a critic of the Riyadh regime, was shot by Saudi police and arrested in 2012 in Qatif IN Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, which was the scene of peaceful anti-regime demonstrations at the time.

He was charged with instigating unrest and undermining the kingdoms security. He had rejected all the charges as baseless.

The Omani envoy, for his part, said Riyadhs announcement of cutting ties with Tehran was unwise and incorrect.

Barwani said he thinks that Saudi Arabias move aims to exert pressure on Iran and underminea nuclear agreement reached between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries.

By Press TV
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