Saudi Arabia
Alleged Iran spies in Riyadh before the court
It is likely the next stage of escalation in the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran: The 32 defendants intended for Tehran’s intelligence service, worked for king Salman and his country is high treason.
As the newspaper “Saudi Gazette” and the news channel Al-Arabija reported, in addition to 30 accused a Shiite-dominated Region of the Sunni Kingdom, also an Iranian and an Afghan accused. You will be thus accused, for the Iranian secret service worked and thus committed high treason.
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The defendants were already in 2013 have been arrested. You need to according to the Reports in front of a special court in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh responsible for. You will therefore be accused of Verteidigungsgeheimnisse betrayed and acts of sabotage, planned to have. In addition, they should have tried spies in government agencies, to recruit. Some of them also Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have made.
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The process is expected to tensions between the Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia continue to strengthen. The rivalry of the two countries for Power and influence in the Region has already been the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Bahrain fueled and conflict resolution more difficult.
Relations deteriorated even further after the saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran and a Consulate of angry demonstrators had been attacked. The protests were directed against the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia in January. He was regarded as a critic of the Royal family in Riyadh. As a response to the protests broke the Riad and several other Sunni-dominated States diplomatic relations with Iran.
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