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Iran Has Its Eye on a New Proxy
American Thinker ^ | 31 Aug, 2025 | Joseph Puder

Posted on 08/31/2025 5:13:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In the Muslim Middle East, plotting revenge is a way of life, so it is not surprising that the Islamic Republic of Iran is seeking to avenge the humiliating defeat inflicted by the United States and Israel this past June. Although Israel is the main focus of Iran’s revenge, the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are also targets for the ayatollahs.

With Hezb’allah demobilized as the executive arm of Iran, and Assad’s Syrian territory is no longer available to transport arms to Hezb’allah, the entire Shiite crescent has been disrupted and is now close to elimination. Only the Yemeni (Zaydi Shiite) Houthis still function as a viable proxy. Some Iraqi Shiite militias, loyal to the ayatollahs, might target American and Israeli interests as well.

The Iranians are experts at finding new clients, especially when they can bribe warring factions, as in the case of Sudan, with arms. Sudan’s territory stretches along the Red Sea, and its Port Sudan might provide Iran with a way to disrupt Israel’s navy along that body, thereby endangering the Jewish state’s ability to trade with Asia and Africa. Should that happen, the Red Sea would be locked on both sides, with the Houthis controlling the southeastern shore.

Iran has significantly increased its military and economic involvement in Sudan's ongoing civil war, leading many experts to warn that Khartoum might well be Iran’s next proxy. The recent rapprochement between Sudan’s military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the de facto head of state, with Iran follows an eight-year diplomatic rupture. It is designed to advance Iran's strategic goals in the Red Sea and counter its regional rivals, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Ironically, Sudan, under al-Burhan, was poised to join the 2020 Abraham Accords that President Donald Trump initiated. Sudan signed the “Abraham Accords Declaration”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: abdelfattahalburhan; egypt; hamas; hezbollah; houthis; iran; iraq; islam; jihad; lebanon; saudiarabia; shiiteheads; shiites; sinai; sudan; syria; yemen

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1 posted on 08/31/2025 5:13:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It never ends.


2 posted on 08/31/2025 5:13:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

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3 posted on 08/31/2025 5:16:24 AM PDT by jonatron
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To: MtnClimber

If Sudan takes the temptation and Iranian money Sudan will quickly cease having a navy at all and its coastal defenses will be laid waste.


4 posted on 08/31/2025 5:18:12 AM PDT by arthurus (| covfeve |m=)
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To: MtnClimber

They just don’t learn. Israel and the U.S. will destroy them where ever they are. Isn’t a definition of insanity trying the same thing over and over expecting different results?


5 posted on 08/31/2025 5:27:08 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: MtnClimber

Iran is having big problems. They have an internal uprising and they are broke and cannot even feed their own people right now. So they do not have any money to support another Proxy...

This is CIA propaganda to create another boogie man and conflict zone... Iran might brag and threaten, but they really cannot afford it right now. They got serious internal problems that our mainstream news is not reporting.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 5:28:22 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: MtnClimber

Islam will always have proxies. Their mosques insure that. It is expanding. Individuals are indoctrinated daily.


7 posted on 08/31/2025 5:51:28 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber; All

https://jihadwatch.org/2025/08/hamas-linked-cair-official-asks-for-donations-to-ensure-that-islam-is-embraced-by-americans


8 posted on 08/31/2025 5:57:48 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
It never ends.

They never quit, unless they're dead.

That's what praying five-times-a-day will do. Such classical conditioning has the same effect on the brain as leftist virtue signaling within their social bubble, for which social media is the conduit.

9 posted on 08/31/2025 6:33:35 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

10 posted on 08/31/2025 6:35:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

That geography is one of those that attack Israel prophesied in Ezekiel 38?


11 posted on 08/31/2025 9:33:13 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: MtnClimber

Iran had better concentrate on getting access to water instead of death to America.


12 posted on 08/31/2025 10:56:22 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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