Arab League tells Iran regime to stop acts of provocation

Drawing upon the companionship of some Arab states in severing or downgrading diplomatic ties with Iran, he said that some states are trying to solve their economic problems by Saudi petro-dollars or they share political interests with Riyadh.

Foreign ministers of the Arab League condemned Sunday Iran’s failure to prevent attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Mashhad.

Jaber Ansari said Sheikh Nimr’s execution was an act contrary to human rights and worldwide law, adding that many countries oppose and regret the action by a Muslim country.

Chinese ally Russian Federation has also indicated it is ready to invite the Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers to Moscow for negotiations.

Arabi called on diplomats meeting at the group’s Cairo headquarters to “adopt a strong and clear common position calling on Iran to stop all forms of interference in the affairs of Arab nations”.

“If Iran wants to have a positive role in the region, they have to deal with their neighbors”, he said. Saudi Arabia and Iran find themselves on opposing sides of the wars in Syria and in Yemen.

“Saudi Arabia seems to fear that the removal of the smoke screen of the nuclear issue will expose the real global threat: its active sponsorship of violent extremism”.

Jubeir confirmed that some countries had offered to mediate in the dispute but suggested that such efforts were unlikely to make any progress.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Saudi Arabia of using its row with Tehran to “negatively affect” peace talks on the Syrian conflict.

In Bahrain, Saudi Arabia backs the Sunni monarchy while Iran has expressed support for anti-government demonstrators in the Shi’ite majority Gulf kingdom. In a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday Zarif said that Saudi Arabia was directly provoking his country and looking for ways to drag the entire region into sectrarian conflict.

Saudi Arabia may take further measures against Iran, in addition to the severance of diplomatic ties that occurred last week, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubair said Saturday.

“I am talking about hundreds, thousands of armed people, who combat Islamic State, some of them have already spoken about it in public, others prefer keeping silent but the work is going on”.