{"id":15914,"date":"2016-01-03T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15914"},"modified":"2016-01-03T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:47:06","slug":"sunni-shia-tensions-rise-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15914","title":{"rendered":"Sunni &#038; Shia Tensions Rise in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/archives\/41346\" target=\"_blank\">Sunni &amp; Shia Tensions Rise in Middle East<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><a href=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2016\/01\/Tehran-Protest-Jan-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41347\" src=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2016\/01\/Tehran-Protest-Jan-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Tehran Protest Jan 2016\" width=\"642\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Protesters stormed and ransacked\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u2019s embassy on Sunday after gathering to denounce the kingdom for executing a prominent Shia\u00a0cleric. They stormed the\u00a0embassy, smashed\u00a0furniture,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/iranian-protesters-storm-saudi-embassy-in-tehran\/ar-BBo98Ll\">setting the embassy on\u00a0fire<\/a><\/strong>, and threw\u00a0papers from the roof. They were eventually cleared away by the police, Iran\u2019s ISNA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Saudi Arabia announced it had executed 47 prisoners convicted of terrorism charges, including al-Qaeda detainees and Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr who had rallied protests against the government. It was the\u00a0execution of al-Nimr which had been expected to increase sectarian tensions across the entire region and deepen the hatred between Sunnji and Shia minority in Saudi Arabia\u2019s not to mention with the Shia in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman Jaberi Ansari\u00a0had been\u00a0quoted on the state-owned English-language Press TV warning that the Saudi monarchy would pay a heavy price for its policies while a Iranian cleric, Hossein Nouri Hamedani, said this would raise significant tensions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunni &amp; Shia Tensions Rise in Middle East Protesters stormed and ransacked\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u2019s embassy on Sunday after gathering to denounce the kingdom for executing a prominent Shia\u00a0cleric. They stormed the\u00a0embassy, smashed\u00a0furniture,\u00a0setting the embassy on\u00a0fire, and threw\u00a0papers from the roof. They were eventually cleared away by the police, Iran\u2019s ISNA news agency reported. On Saturday, Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5496,441,5479,522,701,11399,1633,1634,1899],"class_list":["post-15914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-iran","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-middle-east","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sheikh-nmir-al-nimr","tag-shia","tag-shiite","tag-sunni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15915,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914\/revisions\/15915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}