Iran did not stop defending ardently Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed on Saturday January 2 in Saudi Arabia. This desperate defense answers some questions since what was admitted by al-Nimr in his trials highlighted a lot of that relationship, and what happed on Saturday was considered a shock for the Iranians who tried to challenge through official platforms, of which was recently the statement of Deputy Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, saying:“The execution of Sheikh Nimr would have dire consequences for Saudi Arabia.”
Nimr al-Nimr and many of his supporters from al-Awamiyah village shared the same path, which relies on going armed against the security men and the Saudi government claiming being oppressed religiously and hiding the people who are wanted by Security agencies. Their resistance prefers sect over the nation.
The political Analyst, Fahd al-Ghayadh , told Asharq Al-Awsat that Nimr al-Nimr is not but an Iranian party working in Saudi Arabia as he called several times for applying the Providence of the Jurist) Wilayat al Faqih( in Saudi Arabia, during religious events. Al-Ghayadh considered that this act holds political aims as it is used to achieve political interests. He added that Hashemi Rafsanjani’s letter to the late King Abdullah that was sent to liberate al-Nimr from the Saudi prisons confirmed that Iran was satisfied with the role al-Nimr was playing in Saudi Arabia supporting the Jurist. He said that the Iranian defense lies in al-Nimr’s extremist religious acts.
Al-Ghayadh also added that the Providence of the Jurist, which was called for by Nimr al-Nimr and was punished for, resembles the Muslim Brotherhood calling for the adviser, and in both cases Saudi Arabia classifies them as extremist movements.
He considered that the Shiites don’t all call for the Providence of the Jurist or believe in it as there are many Shiites who refuse this theory. He added that there are scientists, Shiite scholars who refused al-Khomeini’s trends and that Iran has proved its support for terrorism and its aims in employing members in the Gulf and promoting a sectarian coup to affect the nation.