Morocco stands as the only partner in North Africa with whom the new Trump administration can join forces to counter an increasing Iranian threat to destabilize the region through the supply of drones and rockets to Algeria’s Polisario proxies. The rocket shows the scale of Algeria’s involvement in acting as a gateway for Iran’s destabilizing acts in North Africa. Last year, a Polisario rocket fell on a residential area in Smara killing one civilian and seriously damaging a house. What the US can doThe last thing the US and its European NATO allies fathom is another full-blown war with Iranian involvement in North Africa on the EU’s doorsetps. In North Africa, it has found a proxy agent in the Polisario militias as it seeks to export its “Islamic Revolution” to north Africa, where Morocco has stood as a bulwark against Shiite proselytism.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 19, 2024 21:19 UTC