BRKG Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia of Missile Attack on Its Embassy in Yemen

[Housecarl]

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...saudi-missile-attack-damages-embassy-in-yemen

Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia of Missile Attack on Its Embassy in Yemen

by Nafeesa Syeed
January 7, 2016 — 3:40 AM PST

- Embassy guards injured in Sana'a attack, Press TV reports
- Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran this week

A missile attack by Saudi Arabia damaged Iran’s embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, Iranian state-run Press TV reported, fanning the tensest standoff between the regional powerhouses in decades.

Tehran holds Saudi Arabia responsible for the damage caused to its embassy in Yemen, Press TV said Thursday, adding that an unspecified number of embassy guards were wounded. Tehran condemned the attack as a violation of international law, the station said.

Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran this week after an Iranian mob attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran Jan. 2 to protest the execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric. The events between Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and Shiite-led Iran have exacerbated tensions across the Muslim world.

A Saudi-led coalition began carrying out airstrikes last March against Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen in support of allied President Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi. Gulf Arab nations accuse the rebels of being tools of Iran, a charge the Houthis deny.

 

[workerbee]

Oh this isn't good!

 

[Amazed]

Another step up the escalation ladder.

 

[Housecarl]

For links see article source.....
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-blames-saudi-arabia-after-jets-bomb-embassy-yemen-n491871

News
Jan 7 2016, 6:40 am ET

Iran Blames Saudi Arabia After Jets 'Bomb Embassy' in Yemen

by Ali Arouzi and F. Brinley Bruton

TEHRAN — Iran accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen of bombing its embassy and injuring staff, worsening already-strained tensions between the rival powers.

"Saudi Arabia is responsible for the damage to the embassy building and the injury to some of its staff," Iran's state-run television news channel IRIB quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari as saying on Thursday.

The Saudi-led forces will investigate the accusations, coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asseri told Reuters.

A coalition led by Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Muslim allies has been fighting the Shiite Houthi movement, which controls the capital. Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of backing the Houthis.

Related: What Are Differences Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims?

According to Asseri, the Houthis have used civilian facilities including abandoned embassies.

Coalition jets carried out heavy strikes in Sanaa on Wednesday night to target missile launchers used by the Houthis to fire at Saudi Arabia, Asseri added.

The Houthis say they are fighting a revolution against a corrupt government and Gulf Arab powers beholden to the West. Almost 6,000 people have died in the nine-month conflict, nearly half of them civilians.

On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed dissident Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others convicted of terror charges — the largest mass execution carried out by the kingdom since 1980. News of his execution sparked attacks by Iranian protesters on Saudi missions and the severing of ties with Iran by the kingdom.

 

[Foothiller]

And we're supposed to care if mohameddans kill each other?

Seriously?

Soon we're going to have to start killing them too in our own countries. Why?

Because our so-called leaders who no longer represent our interests (here and Europe), are going against the will of the majority by inviting these primitive and uncivilized people into our midst, then demanding that we pay for them and not criticize them.

The people are going to start shooting. But first they're going to have to stop the inflow. To do that, they're going to have to go after those who refuse to stop it.

Then they can work on cleaning up the mess those open border progressives have created on. You cant fix your floor till you stop the leaking roof.

As Bracken says, once they build a mosque, the flag is planted and the effort to conquer and subdue has begun. They cannot assimilate into a secular society.

They do not belong here, or in Europe. I only hope my German and English cousins wake the hell up and correctly diagnose the source of refugee issue, then correct it.

Honestly the house of Saud are some evil sons of bitches, not a bit different than ISIS in terms of how they structure their political system. The flags even have the same symbology and mottoes on them.

Iran needs to destroy the House of Saud -- they are the source of Wahabbism and fund the construction of Wahabbist mosques all over the world.

They are not a friend of the US or any white people.

I hope they die in a fire. If it's a nuclear fire then so be it. They deserve what's coming to them to be sure.

If the Iranians are the only ones with the balls to do it then more power to them.

Sunnis are the terrorists. Sunnis are the jihadists. Iran is Shia.

ISIS, Al Queda, and the Taliban? Sunni.

Radical terrorists? Sunni.

Suicide bombers? Sunni

Paris attacks? Sunni

San Bernadino? Sunni

9/11 (if you believe the official conspiracy theory)? Sunni and majority Saudi at that.

Saudi royals? Sunni.

Wahabbists? Sunni.

So, Iran, please do us a favor since our leaders seem to have capitulated to Sunni wishes: kill them all and let God (or Allah IDGAF) sort them out.

 

[Housecarl]

The concern comes into play if the two actively start shooting at one another with the impact it will have on the oil flow, pricing and that the US has thousands of troops potentially in the middle of this mess.

Also considering the manner in which the Saudi royal family is holding onto power, their implosion would give an opening for some variation of IS allied with the Waahabists.

 

[Countrymouse]

Somehow this dropped off the front page so quick I totally missed it until I heard about it on late-night talk radio tonight.


Another article:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-accuses-saudi-led-coalition-of-bombing-its-yemen-embassy-1452171232

Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia of Bombing Its Embassy in Yemen
Tensions between regional rivals strained further after execution of Saudi Shiite cleric


By Ahmed Al Omran and
Asa Fitch
Updated Jan. 7, 2016 1:56 p.m. ET
26 COMMENTS

RIYADH—Iran on Thursday accused Saudi Arabia of bombing its embassy in Yemen during an airstrike, heightening tensions between the regional rivals after the kingdom’s execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nemer al-Nemer.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber-Ansari said the building in the Yemeni capital, San’a, was damaged and members of its staff injured. He blamed Saudi Arabia for the damage, and suggested the Iranian embassy had been directly targeted.

“The Saudi government is responsible for this move,” he said, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.

The reports of airstrikes on the embassy couldn’t be independently verified, but witnesses near the embassy said the airstrikes hit a square located about 700 meters from the building and that shrapnel had reached the embassy and other structures in the area.

Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have escalated in the wake of the Saudi execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, but the dispute goes much deeper. WSJ's Niki Blasina explains what is behind the strained relationship and why it could jeopardize peace efforts in the region.

“I saw that some glass windows of the Iranian embassy were broken and some shrapnel and stones reached it,” said Hasan Ba Mashmous, who lives just to the west of the building.

Saudi Arabia is leading a military coalition battling Houthi rebels in Yemen. Houthi spokesman Salah al-Ezzi said the group had no information about the bombing. The militant group, which adheres to the Zaidi offshoot of Shiite Islam, has controlled San’a since toppling Yemen’s government in September 2014.

The Saudi-led coalition of mostly Sunni Muslim states, including the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, denied that it hit the Iranian Embassy, calling the allegations “false and void.” In a statement released by the Saudi state news agency the coalition said that it doesn’t carry out any operations in the vicinity of the Iranian embassy.

Indirect confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia—in other countries and through proxies—has become a hallmark of the countries’ standoff, as each seeks to avoid direct conflict. The allegation of a strike on Iran’s embassy highlights the challenge of defusing tensions between the two.


Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Iran planned to take its complaint about the embassy to the United Nations Security Council, according to IRNA.

The Sunni kingdom’s execution of Mr. al-Nemer triggered anger across the Shiite Muslim world and prompted protests in Tehran, Baghdad and Beirut.

Protesters in majority-Shiite Iran attacked Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Iran’s second-largest city, Mashhad, leading the kingdom to sever diplomatic ties on Sunday and recall its ambassador and embassy staff.

Several of Saudi Arabia’s Sunni allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, followed suit by cutting or downgrading diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic.

Although they condemned Mr. al-Nemer’s execution, Iranian officials have in recent days called for those responsible for the attacks on Saudi diplomatic facilities to be found and punished.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday ordered the formation of a special group to investigate the incidents, consisting of judicial, intelligence and local government officials.

But tensions have shown few signs of easing.

Iran’s cabinet on Thursday banned imports of Saudi-made products, IRNA reported, although trade between both countries had been well below 1% of imports and exports on both sides.

It also announced that off-season pilgrimages to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia were on hold until further notice, after the kingdom halted all air traffic and commerce between the countries, the news service said.

Western officials expressed concern that the escalating tensions could jeopardize efforts to solve the crisis in Syria, where rebels backed by Saudi Arabia are fighting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who counts Iran as his chief financial and military backer.

Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir on Tuesday said the kingdom remains committed to the Syrian peace process, including United Nations-brokered peace talks that are due to resume Jan. 25 in Geneva.

 

[night driver]

"Boots on the ground" Twitterati have visually verified that there was NO damage from this "attack".....


Help yerself to the salt lick to be used on virtually ANY info from there...