TEHRAN - The Iranian government has accused Saudi Arabia looking for a reason to inflame tensions with severed diplomatic ties in response to a mass assault on the Embassy and its Consulates in Iran.
Tehran insists that Iran has committed itself to protect foreign diplomatic missions. Iran also has arrested dozens of people involved in the attack and burning of the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Iranian demonstrators stormed the Saudi Embassy a few hours after the Saudi authorities executed a Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Riyadh to withdraw all diplomatic staff and ordered all Iranian diplomats to leave Saudi within 48 hours.
"Iran is committed to providing diplomatic security guarantees by international conventions. But Saudi Arabia, which fosters tensions have used this incident as an excuse to inflame tensions, "said a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Hossein Ansari Jaberi, Monday (01/04/2016), as quoted by Reuters.
Earlier, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Adel Al-Jubeir, ordered all Iranian diplomats to leave Saudi within 48 hours. "The kingdom (Saudi) in view of this reality, announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Iran and asked the delegation of diplomatic missions of embassies, consulates and offices related to it to leave within 48 hours," he said.
"Ambassador (Iran) had called to tell them," he said again. After the Saudi embassy and consulate in Iran is attacked, Jubeir ask all Saudi diplomat in Baghdad, Iraq, wary. Because, in protest at the execution of Al-Nimr also occurred in Iraq.
Asked whether Saudi will sue Iran at the United Nations over attack its Embassy and Consulates in Iran, Jubeir admitted still thinking about it. "Being studied all the options available, both in the Arab League Organization of the Islamic state or the United Nations," said Jubeir.
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