Ayatollah Sadiq Amoli Larijani who was addressing a meeting of Judiciary high ranking officials on Monday said that Saudi officials had engaged in ‘absolutely inane’ conduct in execution of Sheikh Nimr Mohammad Baqir al-Nimr, Shia cleric and an outspoken critic of the Saudi state, and condemned the Saudi regime for his martyrdon.
“Today the world is witnessing Saudi regime’s large-scale crimes in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Yemen and even within its borders in killing its own citizens; in any part of the Islamic world, we could trace Saudi footprints embossed in blood of the innocent civilians,” said the head of the Judiciary, extending his eulogies to Sunni minorities in Iran who had condemned the Saudi despicable act; “they truly demonstrated that like their Shia brethren, they have accurately calibrated the Saudi conduct and that ISIL has nothing to do with true Islam.”
“Saudis are themselves no better representative of Islam; the westerners had, out of care for their own interests, been in a quandary of condemning the execution and taking inefficient positions and felt being in the edge in seeing acute savagery of the Saudi rulers in bloodily handling minor criticism mounted by a cleric,” emphasized the Judiciary head.
