Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has described the execution of Shiite preacher Nimr al-Nimr as a political mistake by the authorities of Saudi Arabia. He expressed this opinion at a meeting of leading scholars of Iran.
''Unfair shedding of the theologian’s blood will lead to the fact that the leadership of Saudi Arabia will also be punished,’’ Tass cites him as saying.
