TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday that Saudi Arabia will face “divine revenge” for executing a top Shiite cleric whose death sparked protests in which the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran was firebombed.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks underlined the fury felt in Iran and other regional countries over the killing on Saturday of Nimr al-Nimr, who spent more than a decade studying theology in the Islamic republic.

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