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January 5th, 2016 
Awake Goy Bahrain has joined Saudi Arabia in cutting ties with Iran in the wake of the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
Saudi Arabia cut ties with regional rival Iran after Iranian protesters attacked its mission there, angered by the Sunni Muslim kingdom’s decision to execute a leading Shiite cleric.
Iranian diplomats in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were given a 48-hour deadline to leave the country.
Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was beheaded on the weekend after Saudi authorities accused him of inciting his followers to violence, but he was hailed in Iran as a champion of the rights of Saudi Arabia’s marginalised Shiite minority.
Bahrain, like Saudi Arabia, has a Sunni royal family, while Iran is the main Shiite power.
Analysts have speculated that the execution of Sheikh Nimr and the other Shiites was partly to demonstrate to Saudi Arabia’s majority Sunni Muslims that the government did not differentiate between political violence committed by members of the two sects.
Bahrain’s move came after Russia said it was ready to act as an intermediary to help settle tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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