Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website has posted a controversial poster after the execution of top Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia with the practices of the Islamic State militant group.
The poster on the website shows two executioners — one an Islamic State fighter holding a knife over a hostage and the second a Saudi executioner flaunting a sword above a prisoner kneeling before him in a grey jumpsuit with a caption “any differences?”.
Iranian foreign ministry also strongly criticised the execution. “The Saudi government supports terrorist movements and extremists, but confronts domestic critics with oppression and execution,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Hossein Jaber Ansari said.
