Iran: ’Death to Al-Saud!’ cry protesters in front of Saudi embassy in Tehran

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Sunday, as protests over the execution of top Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr continue. The demonstrators shouted slogans such as “Death to Al-Saud,“ carried signs with the picture of al-Nimr on them and attached a street sign with the scholar’s name on it to the building. Security measures around the embassy have been heightened, after crowds of protesters had set the building ablaze following the execution. Sheikh Nimr, a leading Shia