Iran is trying to export its “Islamic revolution” to areas in Mayhem including the Tindouf camps in the Algerian territory where a separatist relic of the cold war, the Polisario, is based, said Benni Avni, a foreign affairs analyst. Tehran seeks to export its “Islamic revolution everywhere there is mayhem. In the Polisario, Tehran saw an opportunity, so it stepped in,” Avni was quoted by Fox News as saying. Avni, a New York Times columnist, added that the separatist group “was abandoned by its supporters, except for Algeria.”Commenting on the recent Iranian interference through its proxy Hezbollah, Avni said that Tehran “seeks to export its “Islamic revolution”. The military alliance between Hezbollah and the Polisario with support from Iran and Algeria constitutes an attempt by Tehran “in search for a strategic foothold in North Africa,” he said.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 24, 2018 02:48 UTC