Iran has summoned Saudi Arabia’s charge d’affaires in Tehran after the Gulf kingdom executed three Iranians convicted of drug trafficking, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.
The Islamic republic “strongly protested” the killings to the Saudi official, said a senior diplomat at Iran’s foreign ministry.
The diplomat called on Saudi Arabia to abide by “international conventions” governing relationships between countries.
Riyadh on Sunday executed three Iranians convicted of drug trafficking after they attempted to “smuggle a large amount of hashish by sea” into the kingdom.