Report: Iran suspends talks with Saudi after mass execution

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian information web site near the nation’s management says Iran has determined to briefly droop its secret Iraqi-brokered talks geared toward defusing yearslong tensions with regional rival Saudi Arabia. The Sunday report got here a day after Saudi Arabia carried out its largest identified mass execution in its fashionable historical past. The dominion put to demise 81 individuals convicted of crimes starting from killings to belonging to militant teams, a gaggle that activists imagine included over three dozen Shiites. Saudi Arabia’s executions of Shiites have stirred regional unrest prior to now. Iran, the most important Shiite Muslim nation on the earth, and Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties in 2016 after Saudi Arabia executed a outstanding Shiite cleric.