Bahrain and Sudan cut ties with Tehran,while the UAE downgrades relations after execution of leading Shia cleric Saudi Arabia’s closest Sunni allies maintain followed its lead and severed or downgraded their relations with Iran, as the repercussions continued over the execution of a leading Shia cleric by the Saudi authorities, and which has provoked international condemnation. Ban Ki-moon,the UN secretary general, called the dramatic rupture between Riyadh and Tehran “deeply worrying”.
Bahrain and Sudan cut their ties with Iran, or while the United Arab Emirates downgraded its relations in a bitter row that has highlighted escalating Sunni-Shia tensions and cast a long shadow over efforts to finish the wars in Syria and Yemen.
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Source: theguardian.com