Uncovering routes of transporting Iranian

The Sudanese army was able to achieve minor progress in the Omdurman region with the support of drones launched from Wadi Seidna Air Base, north of Omdurman.

The Rapid Support Forces were able to shoot down a number of these drones and their wreckage revealed that they were Iranian-made drones. That raises the question of, how was Iran able to send these planes to the Sudanese army?

Following the restoration of relations between Iran and Al-Burhan government last year, Iran began supplying the Sudanese army with these drones, as well as artillery and mortar equipment, the most important of which are the “Mohajer” and “Ababil” drones.

There are several routes that Iran takes to deliver these drones, including:

The first route is “Air Transportation”, as the Iranian air transport company “Qeshm Fars” carried out two flights per week in December of last year, and the pace of Iranian support had noticeably increased at the beginning of this year. When these planes were landing at Port Sudan Airport, they were flying over the waters of the Arabian Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, before arriving at Port Sudan Airport.

The second route is “Sea Transportation.” There have been Iranian ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden for several years, under the pretext of combating maritime piracy operations, as Iran was taking advantage of the presence of its ships in the Red Sea to deliver weapons and drones to the port of Port Sudan.

The third route is “The Fishing Vessels” belonging to the Yemeni Houthi militias that smuggle weapons into Yemen, through which the Houthis were able to obtain various Iranian weapons and drones, that played a major role in the Yemeni war, and these ships might have smuggled some of these drones to Sudan.