Protest in Tehran after Saudis execute Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, 46 others

The headline kinda misses the important point: Iranians stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran and set it on fire. Storming embassies seems to be the Iranian national pastime. Of course, there are occasionally some minor repercussions to invading an embassy; it took a little while, but after the Iranians invaded the US embassy, the Iraqis invaded Iran, leading to hundreds of thousands of dead Iranians. I believe the CIA had some small role in seeing to it that that war came to pass. It’ll be interesting to see if some unpleasantness occurs between Iran and Saudi. If so, that’ll play hell with the petroleum market; get used to expensive fuel. I suspect that won’t bother the likes of Vlad Putin; might finally help yoink the Russian economy out of the toilet, at least for a little bit.

It would make for some entertaining CNN…