Soccer and Detained Shiite Cleric Fuel Iranian-Saudi Tensions
Tensions over Saudi Arabia’s handling of a visiting Iranian soccer team and the arrest in the kingdom of a prominent Shiite cleric have sparked a Saudi-Iranian war of words with Iran warning against a crackdown on Saud Arabia’s Shiite majority in the oil-rich Eastern Province.
The warning constituted the first Iranian threat again Saudi Arabia in several…
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