{"id":63662,"date":"2016-01-04T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63662"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:56:37","slug":"saudis-break-diplomatic-ties-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63662","title":{"rendered":"Saudis break diplomatic ties with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/saudis-sever-ties-iran-over-embassy-mission-attacks-063051142.html#\">Associated Press<\/a>, the Saudi Arabian Kingdom has severed some diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran because the Iranians got upset with then over the execution of Shi&#8217;ite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr for his terrorist activities during the brief and weak &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; uprising in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The execution Saturday of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others convicted of terror charges \u2014 the largest mass execution carried out by Saudi Arabia since 1980 \u2014 laid bare the sectarian divisions gripping the region. Shiite protesters took to the streets from Bahrain to Pakistan, while Arab allies of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia lined up behind the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The escalating tensions between the two longtime regional rivals looks to further imperil efforts to end the wars in Syria and Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and Iran back rival sides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it complicates a lot of things going on in the region. Iranians attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran, but the government there condemned those attacks. The Germans and Russia have stepped up to offer their services for mediation in the dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, the Saudi Arabian Kingdom has severed some diplomatic ties with the &hellip; <a title=\"Saudis break diplomatic ties with Iran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63662\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saudis break diplomatic ties with Iran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}