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Outrage in Iraq over al Nimr execution
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The execution in Saudi Arabia of a prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al Nimr sparked outrage in Iraq, where some leaders called for the closure of Riyadhs newly reopened embassy in Baghdad.
Baghdad : The execution in Saudi Arabia of a prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr sparked outrage in Iraq, where some leaders called for the closure of Riyadh's newly reopened embassy in Baghdad.
Khalaf Abdelsamad, who heads the parliamentary bloc of Iraq's Shiite Dawa party -- to which both Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and his predecessor Nuri al-Maliki belong -- said Baghdad should take action.
"Abdelsamad urges the Iraqi government to close down the Saudi embassy, expel the ambassador and execute all Saudi terrorists in Iraqi prisons," a statement from his office said. The Saudi embassy in Baghdad only just reopened on December 15, a quarter of a century after relations were broken over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
The ambassador himself has only been in the country three days.
"The execution of Sheikh al-Nimr will have serious consequences and bring about the end of the Al-Saud (royal family's) rule," Abdelsamad's office said.
Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of the most powerful Shiite militias in the country, reacted with similar demands. Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, a top leader of paramilitary group condemned Nimr's execution.
"Even as the rulers of Saudi Arabia are supporting terror in the entire world by sending takfiris, weapons and car bombs to Muslim countries, today they executed the most honest man in Saudi Arabia," he said in a statement.
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