40 held after attack on Saudi embassy

Police on Sunday arrested 40 protesters after a raid on the Saudi embassy in Teheran on Saturday night, according to the prosecutor-general in the Iranian capital.

Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted by Iran's Labor News Agency as saying that the judiciary had issued an order to identify and arrest others involved in the embassy raid.

Iranian protesters attacked the embassy after the execution of a Shiite leader by Saudi Arabia. The attack came hours after the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that prominent Shiite leader Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other men had been executed on terror charges.