Iran state media calls graduation of Mohammed bin Salman a ‘soft coup’
Former emissary aristocrat Mohammad bin Salman now crowned aristocrat and successor
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BEIRUT: Iranian state media on Wednesday called a appointment of Mohammed Bin Salman to a position of crown aristocrat and inheritor to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman as a “soft coup”.
“Soft manoeuvre in Saudi Arabia/Son becomes a succesor of the father,” review a title on a Iranian state TV website. The pierce is expected to clap Iran’s leadership, that has been vicious of comments by Prince Mohammed final month that a ‘battle’ should be taken into Iran.
Iran, that is primarily Shia Muslim, and Saudi Arabia, that is mostly Sunni, contest for energy and influence across a region. The dual countries support conflicting sides in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
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Islamic State carried out attacks on a Iranian parliament in Tehran and a tabernacle of a owner of a Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dual weeks ago that left during slightest 17 dead. Iranian officials forked a finger during Saudi Arabia, which denied any involvement.
Tension between a dual countries increasing final month when US President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia and took a bellicose position opposite Iran in an central speech, regularly accusing a Islamic Republic of ancillary terrorism. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei labeled the Saudi care ‘idiots’ in a debate final month.
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