Iran and Israel… and the question in regards to Sudan: Who is the real enemy?

Mujahid Bushra

As the conflict intensifies in the Middle East, a strange question surfaces in Sudan: Why do we care about what’s happening between Iran and Israel?

Truthfully, and regardless of this particular question’s apparent simplicity; it conceals a deadly oversight.

 

At a time when we are burning domestically, there are those who keep insisting on reopening the same doors through which the Iranian project infiltrated in the past, going as far as to granting it legitimacy once again under the slogans of “Resistance” and “International Alliances,” failing to learn from the lessons of the past. 

This is a true testament to the fact that the combination of Islamists and the military is the magic formula required for Sudan to be on the List of States Sponsors of Terrorism again, and for continuously threatening regional security.

 

Iran is not a neighboring country… its an expansionist project with an ideological front.

Let us be clear: Iran doesn’t see itself as just a State; it sees itself as the “Supreme Leader of Oppressed Nations.” It has a declared project to export revolution, not through words, but through militias, weapons, and sectarian strife.

From Lebanon to Yemen, from Iraq to Syria, Iran left behind shattered countries, imprisoned elites, collapsed economies, and nations fighting under sectarian slogans.

 

Today, some are trying to replicate this experience in Sudan, however, this time, they’re attempting to use a new fron: A Strategic military alliance with Russia and hidden understandings with Iran, all under the guise of “Confronting the Rapid Support Forces” or “Protecting the Sovereignty,” believing the world is blind to the danger lurking behind these exposed plans, which ought to have a disastrous impact on the future of the Sudanese people.

 

SAF and the Islamic Movement… The Backdoor to the Iranian Project

 

Who took the initiative to re-establish lines of communication with Tehran?

Who agreed to grant Russia the Flamingo Naval Base on the Red Sea shore?

Who receives arms shipments from Iran via clearly identified Iranian aircraft?

And who is repeating the same tired rhetoric about the “Axis of Resistance” and “Islamic Steadfastness”?

They are one and the same: the leaders of the Sudanese Army and the Islamic Movement, who no longer seek popular legitimacy, but rather external allies who will ensure their continued rule at any cost.

 

At this juncture, we ought to be careful: Iran offers nothing for free. Rather, it has a habit of purchasing influence with blood, creating militias within each country to serve its agenda, just as Al-Bashir’s regime created shadow forces and sowed discord in Darfur as well as the Nuba Mountains in the name of religion.

 

Documents found in Al-Mabhouh’spossession revealed information regarding a joint defense agreement between the former Bashir regime and Iran in (2008). Amongst the details of the agreement was “Transforming Khartoum into a weapons manufacturing base, and utilizing the products to attack Tel Aviv.”

 

Is Israel the enemy… or the stumbling block to this project?

 

You may not like Israel, or you may have a doctrinal, moral, or intellectual position… and that’s your right.

Nevertheless, you ought to take a moment and ask yourself:

Who destroyed the Yarmouk factory in (2012), which Iran was using to smuggle weapons to Hamas, as they were -and to this day, still are- destroying the lives of the Palestinian people in Gaza?

Who exposed Iranian arms smuggling operations through Sudan?

Who confronted the Iranian nuclear project and hindered its progress every time?

Additionally, who sought neither a military base in Port Sudan, nor the establishment of a militia within the country, not even attempting to fuel a particular sectarian current?

The answer to all the aforementioned questions is the same: Israel.

 

Emotions aside, the party responsible for igniting wars in the region, supporting coups, and funding extremist groups is not the “Zionist Entity,” but Tehran.

Open your eyes: Slogans don’t protect homelands in today’s world.

 

Unfortunately, many Sudanese elites —especially those aligned with Islamists— still raise slogans about “Palestine,” glorify Iran, and lamenting the resistance, while remaining silent about the horrific and brutal war crimes in Sudan, the Sudanese Army’s massacres against unarmed civilians, and its dubious alliances with those who destroyed entire countries.

 

Those who choose remain silent about Iran’s expansion in Sudan are the same people who kept silent about the spread of corruption and injustice throughout Al-Bashir’s era.

 

In Conclusion: The real threat to Sudan lies -not- in Tel Aviv… but in Tehran.

 

Israel, despite everything, has yet to, and does not seek to occupy Sudan or plant a militia on a domestic level.

 

As for Iran, it has continued to utilize this particular strategy by supporting the Islamic Movement, and its preparing to do so again through the “Russian-Islamic Army Alliance.”

If we fail to pay attention now, Port Sudan could turn into a new Sana’a, or another Baghdad, ruled by a “shadow” we cannot see… but that controls everything.

You are not in favor of normalization with Israel? Well, don’t buy its enmity then… limit your reaction to what might protect Sudan from hegemonic projects and the hijacking of decision-making.

 

Strive to repeat the following when faced with the Islamists and military usurpers of power, the perpetrators of terrorism: “Whoever wishes to support our causes should start by respecting our Sovereignty, not by facilitating its violation and the hijacking of its decisions.”