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Alwaght- The Saudi which severed ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran has compelled some of its weak allies including Sudan and Bahrain to follow suit by announcing they were going to cease their diplomatic relations with Tehran.
These two countries which followed Saudi Arabia’s move are beneficiaries of Riyadh’s checkbook diplomacy.
Bahrain News agency reported that the tiny Gulf state is cutting diplomatic ties with Iran, and that Manama ordered Tehran's diplomats "to leave the kingdom within 48 hours."

The Bahraini foreign ministry summoned Iran's charge d'affaires Murtada Sanawbari and handed him an official note in this regard, said the statement carried by BNA. The Bahraini regime has been able to survive a people’s uprising since February 2011 due to massive presence of Saudi occupation forces in the tine Persian Gulf State.
Moreover, "the Sudanese government announces the cutting of diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran immediately," the foreign ministry said in a statement Monday. Hundreds Sudanese troops recently j o i n Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen as reports emerged that the Sudanese president has been paid Billions of US dollars to send his troops to Yemen. The Sudanese minister of finance Badr al-Din Mahmoud last November said that Saudi Arabia has committed to invest 1.7 Billion U.S dollars for the “constructions of three dams”.  The African-Arab state has over the recent past changed its policies from and independent Muslims country to one bending over to serve the Saudi regime.
The United Arab Emirates, which has great financial interests in Iran, sufficed to lowering its diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic by calling Ambassdor Saif al-Za’abi back home to follow relations at the charge d’affaires level.
Meanwhile Oman's Ambassador to Tehran Saud bin Ahmad al-Bardani criticized Saudi Arabia for severing relations with Iran.
"Regardless of its cause, this has definitely been an unwise action conducted through an incorrect method," Bardani said in a meeting with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani in Tehran on Monday, referring to Riyadh's severance of diplomatic ties with Iran.
"I believe Saudi Arabia, through its recent measure, is after pressuring Iran and overshadowing the nuclear agreement (between Tehran and the world powers)," he added.
Elsewhere Russian Foreign Ministry says cutting off diplomatic relations is not a “very constructive step” after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan severed their ties with the Islamic Republic.
"Severing diplomatic relations is not a very constructive step… It is not contributing to mutual understanding,” a Russian Foreign Ministry source told Interfax on Monday.
On Sunday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced the kingdom's severing of diplomatic relations with Iran following Tehran's strong condemnation of the execution of prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
The Saudi execution of Sheikh Nimr was followed by a suspicious attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran during a protest to condemn the execution on January 2.
Sheikh Nimr was arrested in 2012 for demanding reforms, freedom and an end to discrimination of the country’s Shiite minority inhabitants of the oil-rich eastern province.
The execution of Sheikh Nimr has attracted international condemnation with the  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon saying he was “deeply dismayed” by the Saudi move. In October 2015, Ban had called on the Al Saud regime to revoke Sheikh Nimr’s death sentence.