Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with Iran amid escalating tensions

Q.  Saudi Arabia has severed ties with which nation amidst escalating tensions over execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr?
- Published on 04 Jan 16

a. Iraq
b. Syria
c. Iran
d. Jordan

ANSWER: Iran
 
Saudi Arabia announced on 3rd January 2015 that it was severing diplomatic relations with Iran following the execution of a prominent Shia cleric by the former country. Demonstrators stormed and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran in protest over the death of Sheikh al Nimr, a prominent Shia cleric. Mass execution of al-Nimr and 46 others carried out in Saudi Arabia is the largest in decades and has divided West Asia, with protestors from Bahrain to Pakistan protesting the execution.

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