Here’s a summary of some interesting commentaries on the state of Iran one year after the rigged presidential election last summer:
• Foreign Policy‘s Jonathan Schanzer unpacks a story coming out of Rai al Shaab — the unofficial newspaper of Sudan’s opposition — reporting that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force is operating a secret weapons factory on the outskirts of Khartoum. According to Schanzer:
Although Rai al-Shaab’s news item is still unconfirmed, the long history of military cooperation between Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the Islamic Republic certainly places it within the realm of possibility. Indeed, the mullahs have been helping Sudan expand its terrorist infrastructure since Islamists (led by the aforementioned Turabi) brought Bashir to power through a coup d’
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