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Morocco severs diplomatic ties with Iran

Morocco has joined the West in pilling pressure on Iran after cutting ties with Tehran for supporting the Polisario Front, a Western Saharan independence movement.

Rabat accuses Tehran of providing financial and logistic support to Polisario Front through Lebanese proxy Hezbollah and has thus severed ties with Iran.

According to Morocco’s foreign affairs minister, Nasser Bourita, Rabat has evidence that incriminates the Iranian government, which assisted Hezbollah in providing financial as well as logistical support to Polisario through its embassy in Algiers.

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“This month Hezbollah sent [surface-to-air] SAM9, SAM11 and Strela missiles to the Polisario with the connivance of Iran’s embassy in Algiers,” he told reporters.

“Morocco was left without a choice but to act and cut diplomatic ties and close its embassy in Tehran.”

Iran is yet to respond to the Moroccan move or accusation even as there seems enough evidence to prove that Tehran has backed Polisario in the past.

 

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