Eyewitnesses reported that several citizens were killed and injured inside a public transportation

At a time when the Sudanese State institutions have collapsed under the weight of war, and while death, Cholera, and hunger continue to incessantly haunt the common citizen; the military and Islamic authorities in Port Sudan, a day before the Iran-Israel war ended, issued an announcement, enunciating that: “The evacuation of Sudanese citizens from Iran has been completed.” It was as if they still held the reins of the State, or cared about the meaning of citizenship, and as if Iran was a haven for displaced persons and refugees, not the cause of their tragedy of asylum and displacement.

However, the lackluster announcement issued by the Foreign Ministry of the coup and war government didn’t last long. It quickly became a mirror reflecting the depth of the moral and political collapse the country has been experiencing since the (October 2021) coup. Unfortunately, the repercussions of that coup weren’t limited to stifling civil transformation and crushing the dreams of the Sudanese people; moreover, it brought the Islamists back to the forefront and plunged the country into the swamps of a devastating war that has displaced millions both internally and internationally.

In the midst of this catastrophe, the current government showed no serious concern for the plight of the Sudanese nationals in exile or displacement camps, especially the communities living abroad. The aforementioned were victims not only of war, but of systematic policies that pushed them into swallowing the bitter bill of exile through impoverishment, the deprivation of dignity, and exchanging gains for loyalty. The same policies were reinstated, and with them, the embassies as they were under the junta: shops selling exorbitant travel documents, only fitting for a passport that had become the most expensive on the market, and the least valuable and respected amongst nations!

Therefore, why so suddenly enthusiastic to evacuate hundreds from Iran, while millions were left in displacement camps and wandering in the desert, without a ‘Moses’ to lead their way?

At this juncture, the crux of the matter becomes rather clear: Those evacuated from Iran weren’t ordinary citizens, but members of the Islamic Movement; some were students at (Qom) religious institutes, others were Security and militia cadres training with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on drones and gray-zone warfare techniques. They are the core of the project that brought down the revolution, dragged the country into ruin, and, in cooperation with the military, restored the era of tyranny in a new religious and military guise.

Hence, the evacuation, wasn’t in response to a humanitarian call, but rather a compliance with calculations of loyalty. The State wasn’t rescuing its subjects, rather its members. It didn’t rescue human beings, but fortified the organization’s memory and preserved its solid core, in preparation for its re-empowerment in the coming days.

Here lies the paradox: whilst the State is hijacked by a corrupt religious group reproducing itself constantly, the true homeland —the citizen, the human being— is left to wander, crushed by war and trampled by the darkness of displacement!

The evacuation of Iran wasn’t one aimed at safely evacuating citizens; it was meant to withdraw an organization that didn’t die, but rather moved on private planes from the ashes to where it would be revived, awaiting the moment to pounce from the gates of the Army of shame and disgrace upon a homeland being torn apart, a nation being displaced, and maps being erased. The project is being re-engineered to the sound of Iranian Shahed drones, in order to create the nucleus of a new Revolutionary Guard on the Red Sea, no less brutal than the original (IRGC) in its origins.