Shiite Cleric Gained in Status as a Rivalry Deepened

By BEN HUBBARD from NYT World http://ift.tt/1RnnaLL
via IFTTT The rise to prominence of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was scarcely known outside of Saudi Arabia before his arrest in 2012, corresponds closely with the intensification of the rivalry between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia.