Kuwait withdrew its ambassador from Iran – RBC

Embassy of Kuwait in Tehran

Photo: REUTERS 2016

The government of the Emirate of Kuwait withdrew its ambassador from Iran. This happened after the attacks in the country on a diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported citing state news agency.

Review is “against the backdrop of attacks, arson and sabotage” the crowds of protesters at the Saudi embassy in Tehran and Consulate in Mashhad, according to a publication of the Kuwaiti agency KUNA.

The first of the severance of diplomatic relations with Iran, said Saudi Arabia. The head of the Foreign Ministry announced this at a press conference on 3 December. Iranian diplomats given 48 hours trying to leave the country. In a statement, the minister said that Riyadh will not allow Iran to engage in undermining the security of the country.

At the same measures went and Bahrain: December 4, the authorities demanded that the Iranian diplomats for two days to leave the country. Sudan has also expelled the Iranian ambassador to protest against the policy of Tehran. The decision was taken “in response to the barbaric attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad,” a statement quoted by Reuters the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The protesters attacked the embassy of Saudi Arabia during the night January 3. They broke into the embassy building and set it on fire. The photographs, which were published users of social networks, was seen burning building, the rooms inside the embassy and broken furniture.

The attacks and protests were caused by the execution in Saudi Arabia, 47 convicted for terrorism. Among them was also one of the most prominent representatives of the Shiite minority, and the famous preacher Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. He was arrested in 2012 on charges of inciting riots. In October 2014 the court sentenced al-Nimrah to death.

The situation in the relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the night of January 5, discussed the UN Security Council. During the meeting, the representative of the Kingdom, said that the court was on 47 Executed fair, in respect of them have been “honest and fair trials, without regard to their intellectual, racial or religious grounds.” Relations with Iran are also restored when Tehran to stop interfering in the affairs of other countries, said the representative of Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters.

The UN Security Council condemned the attacks on demonstrators Iranian embassy and consulate of Saudi Arabia, reports Associated Press.