February 2016
Despite the fact that Sudan has severed all
diplomatic ties and relations with Iran, closed down Tehran’s embassy in
Khartoum and expelled all of this regime’s diplomat-terrorists from it soil,
there remain thousands of people influenced by Iran’s Shiite propaganda in
Sudan. Iran enjoyed close ideological relations with Islamist leaders in Sudan
who had diverted to Shiite Islam and remained in that country. They can act as
a deadly poison left in Sudan by the Iranian regime.
After 1979 when the mullahs’ hijacked the
revolution in Iran, they pursued a very carefully planned agenda in all Muslim
countries, especially the poor, to have Sunni Muslims convert to Shiite Islam,
and the latest accomplishment in this regard for Iran has been the unrest seen
in Sudan. Therefore, one can say the consequences of Iran’s policies in Sudan
will not be eradicated easily as Tehran long ago planted the seeds of enmity
and terrorism in this country, which is becoming active today.
Following the attack against the Saudi
embassy and consulate in Tehran and Mashhad staged by Revolutionary Guards and
Bassij elements under orders issued directly by Iranian regime supreme leader
Ali Khamenei, the Sudanese government ended all diplomatic relations with Iran
and issued a two-week deadline to all Iranian embassy staff to leave their
country. On January 20th Sudan announced Iran’s official delegation
had departed Khartoum.
In September 2014 the Sudanese government
had closed down Iran’s cultural centers on the basis that such facilities
presented an intellectual and cultural threat for the Sudanese society.
Khartoum also expelled Iran’s cultural affiliate.
Iran has resorted to
various methods to exports its “revolution” to Sudan, including providing
college scholarships to Sudanese students, luring Sudanese writers and
journalists, launching Iran-Sudan friendship associations, developing Shiite training
through Iranian cultural centers, holding Shiite exhibitions and emphasizing
their close relations with Sufism clerics, establishing cultural and medical
centers, launching branches of Imam Jafar Sadeq University to provide classes
on the Quran, religion and … One of the most important projects pursued by Iran
in Sudan was sending students interested in religious studies to the city of
Qom (mullahs’ center of studies in Iran) and having them become mullahs. Their
motivation was the amount of money Iran was providing to these poor people.
Upon their return to Sudan these individuals would begin promoting the Shiite
religion practiced in Iran and receive salaries in return from Tehran.
Economically the Iran
Gas Company had a project in Sudan in which thousands of people were employed
in. This firm had various branches in cities spanned across Sudan and all the
individuals hired had to be Shiites or had established close contact with the
Shiites in Sudan who had relations with the Iranian regime, and were also
approved by Shiite leaders in Sudan. This project in a poor country such as
Sudan encouraged many people to convert to Shiite Islam to find a job.
Iran’s role in Sudan’s
oil industry was only aimed at expanding the Shite religion in this country.
Iran had signed
military agreements with Sudan, including providing military support for Sudan,
reports indicate. Iran was attempting to replace the Sudanese Army weaponry of
Russian and Chinese-made arms with Iranian weapons and ammunition. To this end
Iran provided a 50% discount in selling arms to Sudan and arrangements were made
for Iran to build a military factory to manufacture Iranian weapons in
Khartoum.
A joint military
committee also signed an agreement to defend the country’s defense interests,
stating no foreign party should be permitted to attack the other party. In May
2012 an Iranian delegation visited Sudan for an analysis on the country’s needs
and provided a financial aid package to Khartoum.
In 2009 the volume of
arms trade between Iran and Sudan was valued at around $18.496 million,
accumulating to 22% of all the weaponry purchased by Sudan, a U.N. Trade Office
report indicated. The countries of Iran, China and Russia are the most
important states exporting arms to Sudan.
By taking part in
Operation Decisive Storm and providing troops in the campaign against the Iran-backed
Houthis in Yemen, Sudan indicated it has returned to its Arab base. Iran
received another major blow after Saudi Arabia’s actions against its meddling
in Arab countries.
The only practical
method to confront Iran’s meddling is to sever all ties with this regime.
Otherwise, other Arab states must be warned that sooner or later their nations
will be suffering from the Iranian regime’s infectious disease known as
fundamentalism. Unfortunately, they must act before it’s too late.
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