Recently the Government of Saudi Arabia executed outspoken Shiite Muslim clients Nimr al-Nimr, a harsh critic of the Saudi government and royal family.
The Saudi Royal Family is nothing more than a puppet government put in place by the west and is the closest allies of the apartheid state of the Zionist government of Israel.
Al-Nimr routinely spoke out against the the harsh and unfair treatment in Saudi Arabia of the Shiite ethnic minority by the predominantly Wahabi government and population.
Al-Nimr routinely advocated the overthrow of the Saudi Government.
Immediately following his execution sectarian violence erupted including an attack of the Saudi embassy in near by Iran a Shiite majority nation.
Saudi Arabia immediately severed diplomatic ties to Iran, Kuwait and Bahrain also severed ties with Iran. These nations have mainly Sunni majorities.
Israel and Iran have been bitter enemies since Israel achieved statehood in the mid to late 20th century have called for its annihilation and vice versa.
Iraq, which is predominantly A Sunni Muslim nation is politically controlled by a Shiite minority after being set up to do so by the U.S. at the end of the second Gulf war, also had harsh words for Saudi Arabia.