The Sheikh Nimr sign was taken down
A journalist in Mashhad reported on Saturday, April 8, that there is no trace of the street sign near the Saudi consulate in Mashhad, which was named after Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr, a Shia cleric executed in Saudi Arabia.
It seems that the removal of Ayatollah Nimr’s sign, whose death became a pretext for the attack on the Saudi Arabian embassy, occurred following the Tehran-Riyadh agreement and on the eve of the reopening of the embassy, which was finally concluded on March 10 of last year in Beijing after seven rounds of negotiations over three years.
Diplomatic relations between Tehran and Riyadh were severed in 2015 after government supporters attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran in response to the execution of Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr.
On January 2, 2016, the Saudi Ministry of Interior announced in an official statement that Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, along with 46 others, had been executed on charges of terrorism and mainly being associated with Al-Qaeda.
He, who was considered one of the leaders of the Shia protests in 2011 in Saudi Arabia, had studied in the city of Qom.
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