Iran, having just had two of its major proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, seriously degraded, is setting its sights on a new, “consolation prize” proxy to use as an additional base of operations: Sudan.
Iran has, for a while, been trying to establish a port in Sudan’s major coastal city, Port Sudan. Iran’s strategy of supporting and infiltrating other countries and terrorist groups — as it has done in Iraq, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela and Yemen — appears as yet another extension of its strategy of moving into territories with weak or unstable governments to expand its influence throughout the Middle East, to create new fronts for its campaign to destroy Israel and bring down the world order led by the West.
