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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia widened its rift with Iran on Monday, saying it would end air traffic and trade links with the Islamic republic and demanding that Tehran must "act like a normal country" before it would restore severed diplomatic relations.

Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Reuters in an interview that Tehran was responsible for rising tensions after the kingdom executed Shi'ite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday, describing him as a terrorist.

Insisting Riyadh would react to "Iranian aggression", he accused Tehran of dispatching fighters to Arab countries and plotting attacks inside the kingdom and its Gulf neighbors.

"There is no escalation on the part of Saudi Arabia. Our moves are all reactive. It is the Iranians who went into Lebanon. It is the Iranians who sent their Qods Force and their Revolutionary Guards into Syria," Jubeir said.

Tehran says it has sent only military advisers to Syria and Iraq at their governments' requests, and denies plots in Gulf states.

The execution of Nimr provoked protests among Shi'ites across the region and Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran, setting fires and causing damage, prompting Riyadh to cut ties and inflaming an already heated rivalry.

"We will also be cutting off all air traffic to and from Iran. We will be cutting off all commercial relations with Iran. And we will have a travel ban against people traveling to Iran," Jubeir said.

Iranian pilgrims would still be welcome to visit Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina in western Saudi Arabia, either for the annual haj or at other times of year on the umrah pilgrimage, he said.
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However, Jubeir said Saudi Arabia had been right to execute Nimr, whom he accused of "agitating, organizing cells, providing them with weapons and money" - allegations that the cleric's family have denied.

After listing the crimes of 43 al Qaeda members also put to death on Saturday alongside four Shi'ites, Jubeir said of the executions: "We should be applauded for this, not criticized."

'AGGRESSIVE POLICIES'

Jubeir, a former ambassador to Washington where the FBI in 2011 said he had been the target of an Iranian assassination plot, said the break in ties was a response to older problems as well as the embassy storming.

"[It] is a reaction to Iran's aggressive policies over the years, and in particular over the past few months. The Iranian regime has been a sponsor of terrorism, they have set up terrorist cells in Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries," he said.

Tehran has consistently denied those charges and itself has accused Riyadh of supporting militancy through its backing of Islamist rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Jubeir also accused Iran's authorities of complicity in the attack on the embassy at the weekend, saying Saudi diplomats had seen security forces enter the building and take part in looting and that the police did not respond to more than one request for help.

Iran has defended its measures to protect the Saudi embassy, saying it is investigating the matter and has made arrests.

Asked what steps Iran needed to take before Riyadh would consider restoring diplomatic ties, Jubeir said Tehran must "respect international norms and treaties and conventions" and "act like a normal country [that] respects the territorial integrity of its neighbors".

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Cc Lalasticlala, Mynd44

When Benitez heard that the budget has been technically withdrawn from Legislooters to give room for his sack

1.7billion on food

Social Media Change Agents won't be happy with this development



“Curiously enough, President Muhammadu Buhari’s first budget estimates after rising to power on a promise of change have familiar ingredients associated with the old discredited order. Details of the 2016 budget proposal reflect astonishing similarities with the immediate past, prompting questions about the meaning of change. - Source


#BudgetOfYams

One of the sources said there were too many errors in the budget that cannot be overlooked.The president did not read the actual budget until criticism started flying left, right and center.-Source




#BudgetOfYams

omenka:
Wow!! Great comment!!

Blame David Mark and Suswan for that

That's shows that your Zoogeria is an expired and moribund entity going by the shredded/tattered flag

Hope Prof Itse Sagay would not advise Buhari to unleash his bulldog(EFCC) and Assacian dog (DSS) on the poor Vice Chancellor

@francizy, permit me to quote Femi Fani Kayode on this thread.
APC supporters are most debased and pitiful creatures-(FFK Jan, 2016)

xtropy:
Fulani ass-licking slave, did you read this part:

"By the time the Europeans came, even the Yoruba people, did not even learn how to live with each other, they were fighting and all over the north, they were fighting everywhere, there were tribal wars."
I just remember only recently the Yoruba leaders said they want to break, break from where. The Yoruba are probably the people who economically enjoy Nigeria more than anybody, economically. So why are they going?" -
Mallam Adam Ciroma

Sure the brownies will not see this subtly taken swipe from Ciroma

The chess game is real.
US romances Saudi and at the same time romances. Tehran.
US knows that Iran is predominantly Shiites while Saudi is Sunnis.
US had a deal with Saudi Arabia on oil while had with Tehran on Nukes.

To win the game on the political chessboard put a checkmate on Iran using Saudi which has over flooded the Oil market with their own oil and on the other hand checkmate Iran which is bent on producing more Nukes to level the middle east with Saudi throughout religious war there causing the price of crude oil to have a differential which makes US to own the stage.
And finally comes to the jugular of Putin and finally nail Assad.

I can smell the arrival of Debased Creatures from afar trying to invade the thread and attack Op

Khd95:
my brother,streets doesnt knw illegitimate,but illegal,u can ask baddoo

Street does not know illegal but bastard

APC supporters are most debased and pitiful creatures - FFK

Watch as the change agents defend the serial dictator

Another propaganda from Lai Mohammed and his lying crew to keep zoogerians busy

Now is Buhari a liar?

Amein:
Where is NDLEA ?
Why has the price of weed become so cheap?
I think this man has been smoking in excess.
PMB we need standard rehab centers in this country.

Focus on the message and stop attacking the messenger

What happens to economic class?

The Awolowo of our time. Go Fayose the albatross to Tinubu and his puppets

Cc Lalasticlala

Femi Fani Kayode, the new canary bird in town


Aisha Rice Summit comes to mind where she hosted Social Media Change Agents with 1.7billion feeding budget from the budget 2016


Cc bettercreature, Gbawe, Fulanimafia, biafraqueen, MizMyColi, omenka, Beremx, APCLyingBastard, NgeneUkwenu

IdisuleOurOwn:
Decibel, Mynd44 should ban you for multiple monikers.

You are the reason why most pdp supporters are profiling the APC supporters due to deficiency in logic

IdisuleOurOwn:
Mynd44

Not amount of lobby will make him to ban my moniker without giving me a suitable reasons.

Democracy in action. The beauty of democracy and rule of law in a sane country not in Zoogeria

Burutai should take note but Buhari is not helping matters that's why he can massacre Shiites in Zaria without questioning from presidency or National Assembly

Someone is busy raping democracy and the sycophants are hailing him. KWONTINU....

Buhari seems to be more clueless than I thought with this statement. Smh

“And the one you’re calling Kanu, do you know he has two passports. One Nigeria, one British and he came to this country without using any passport. “Do you know that he brought equipment into this country, sophisticated equipment, and was broadcasting for Radio Biafra. - Muhammadu Buhari Dec 2015

Garba Shehu should be relieved of his job, he is very poor at managing the already battered image of the serial dictator Buhari who has penchant for raping democracy and rule of law.

abbey621:
That's why we must all develop as a whole, Nigeria is still young, my hope is by the time we get to be 100 years old, things would have improved greatly!

Naija@55 too young; are you a stand up comedian?

abbey621:
Only in Nigeria are those who studied pure Mathematics considered inferior to Engineering students. The truth is both fields are completely different in the ways they practice. In Nigeria, Mathematicians are mostly relegated to the teaching profession while Engineers can work basically anywhere. In advanced societies a Physicist could be more versed in mathematics than a Mathematician or an Engineer, it's all about skills and paths chosen throughout educational career. Finally most people don't realize this but in Nigeria, Mathematics is taught rather than practiced. In the advanced world, a real Mathematician is a researcher, a formulator and the brains behind most Engineering concepts . E.g. A computer engineer is trying to develop a cooling microchip for a processor basically meant for data processing involving operands and other data from the library of congress. Without complex mathematically analysis this would be impossible, without the formulas from great Mathematicians the Engineer would be lost!

That's the truth but would you blame them?

alcuin:
I will just laugh at comments like these.

In Petroleum Engineering, we do lots of modelling, abstract mathematics, finite element analysis, calculus etc.

There is nothing intelligent about this thread, Mathematicians have their role, so also are the Engineers.

But, I think the Engineering student should be given a Diploma in Mathematics upon graduation.

Thanks.

I will only pardon your ignorance but will left your comment for real Mathematicians.

iWise:
Bros, em, em..., have you heard about simple functions? What can you say about their significance with respect to the Lebesgue integrals of almost continuous functions? Least I forget, how do you categorize Lorentz forces and their significance in the study of body forces?

Do they even know what Zemelo's principle is? Jokers

Durentt:
calculus my ass. All d 200lvl elect engr students i know are dealing with indices nd logarithm in their borrowed courses. MEC ENGR. Doin Vectors nd d rest. And dey be feeling fly

In some universities they do elementary calculus