Saudi Regime on Verge of Collapse
Addressing Friday prayers worshipers in Tehran today,
Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani noted that the execution of prominent
Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr by the Al Saud has been
condemned all over the world that the crime will accelerate the collapse of the
Saudi regime.
What had Sheikh Nimr done to be beheaded? Tehran’s interim Friday prayers leader enquired.
He noted that Sheikh Nimr only carried out the Islamic obligation of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Saudi Arabia’s execution of 47 prisoners, including Sheikh Nimr, drew global condemnation on January 2.
The executions took place in 12 cities in Saudi Arabia, four prisons using firing squads and the others beheading. The bodies were then hanged from gibbets in the most severe form of punishment available in the kingdom’s law.
Sheikh Nimr had been detained in July 2012 on charges of delivering anti-regime speeches and defending political prisoners.
Elsewhere in his sermon, Ayatollah Movahedi Kermani referred to the recent capture of two US vessels that had trespassed Iran’s territorial waters, saying that it showed the Islamic Republic’s might and defense capabilities.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on Tuesday seized two American combat vessels, with 10 armed sailors on board, when they entered Iran’s territorial waters near the island of Farsi.
On Wednesday, the IRGC Public Relations said in a statement that the sailors were freed following an apology from the US and after technical and operational investigations indicated that the intrusion into Iranian territorial waters was "unintentional".
