Experts confirmed that Iran is close to imposing its full control over Sudan, after its allies from the Muslim Brotherhood returned strongly to the scene, and their control over the decision of the devastating war in the country.

In statements to Eram News, experts said that the upcoming visit of the Sudanese Foreign Minister to Iran may give Tehran the final opportunity to extend its influence over Sudan, in exchange for the arms that the envoy of the head of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, may request.

Sudan’s acting ambassador to Iran, Khaled Ibrahim al-Sheikh, announced two days ago that his country’s foreign minister will head to Tehran to enhance bilateral cooperation, according to IRNA news agency.

“Iran is a strong country, and the diplomatic approach of President Masoud Bazeshkian’s government opens the way for strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two countries,” Elsheikh said, adding: “Relations between the two countries have always been good over the past 20 years, and we hope that cooperation between them will increase in the current circumstances.”

Political analyst Salah Hassan Gomaa said that the Muslim Brotherhood, which returned to the scene after the outbreak of the war, succeeded in dragging the army into an alliance with Iran, confirming their control over relations between the two countries, and that Sudanese diplomats in Iran belong to the Islamist group.

Speaking to Eram News, Juma’a explained that the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan have been linked to Iran since the era of former President Omar al-Bashir, who cut ties with it in his last years, indicating that the group returned during this war and took advantage of the army’s need for weapons to put it in the hands of the Persian state.

He suggested that the Sudanese foreign minister’s upcoming visit to Tehran may be orchestrated by the Brotherhood, with the aim of obtaining weapons for their militias fighting alongside the Sudanese army.

By exploiting the Sudanese army’s need for its weapons and experts who train its elements in the use of drones and other weapons, Tehran seeks to impose its control over the Red Sea port, he said.

“Iranian interference in Sudan by supplying weapons to al-Burhan’s government and training and qualifying Islamist battalions on advanced weapons will fuel the internal conflict and drag the countries of the region into various conflicts,” he said.

Al-Burhan failed in his international alliances, which made him surrender to the Ikhwan, who are ready to hand the country over to Iran, which they consider a strategic ally that provides them with weapons and trains their fighters from the Baraa bin Malik battalion, he said.

Continued Iranian support:

Political analyst Omar Mohamed al-Nour said that Iran’s interference in Sudan, and its support for the army and Islamist militias allied with al-Burhan, has been clear since the beginning of the war.

Al-Nour told Eram News that Iran had expanded “culturally and militarily” inside Sudanese territory during the era of the Islamic Movement, through Husseiniyas that promote the Shiite doctrine, in addition to weapons factories in Khartoum that are supervised by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, he said.

He explained that the Islamic Movement saw the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the RSF as an opportunity to restore its ties with Iran, which had been severed in the last years of al-Bashir’s rule.

Al-Nour noted that there are reports linking the Islamic Movement’s al-Baraa bin Malik militia, which is fighting alongside the army, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Citing a video circulating on social media showing an army officer admitting that al-Baraa fighters are in control of drones, he added that al-Baraa militiamen are being sent to Tehran to receive training in the use of drones that control battles.

Iranian weapons in the Sudanese war:

During the past period, traces of the use of incendiary weapons appeared in the aerial bombardment carried out by the Sudanese army in several areas of the capital Khartoum and the Darfur region, while local reports indicated that these weapons were Iranian made.

Two weeks ago, the “South Belt Emergency Room” announced that more than 20 people were burned to death in an aerial bombardment carried out by the Sudanese army on the Salama area south of Khartoum.

The Rapid Support Forces had earlier announced the downing of an Iranian Shahid 129 airplane in the city of Khartoum Bahri, after it was used to bomb civilians in different areas of the Sudanese capital.

The RSF said in a statement that the quality of the aircraft that was shot down clearly reveals the size of the military supplies that Burhan’s forces and the Islamic Movement receive from Iran.

Iram News