Iran-Sudan Rapprochement Threatens to Deepen Deadly Civil War
- West sees danger of Islamic Republic once again supplying arms
- African nation cut Iran relations in 2016 amid regional shift
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Iran is quietly rebuilding ties with Sudan, stoking concern the Islamic Republic will widen its military influence on the fringes of the Middle East and deepen a disastrous civil war.
With cease-fire talks for Sudan’s six-month-old conflict set to resume Thursday in Saudi Arabia, Tehran’s recent rapprochement with the North African nation’s army throws a potential wildcard into a crisis already vulnerable to outside interference.