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Iran Tried to Persuade Sudan to Allow Naval Base on Its Red Sea Coast
(Wall Street Journal) Nicholas Bariyo - Iran unsuccessfully pressed Sudan to let it build a permanent naval base on the country's Red Sea coast, which would have allowed Tehran to monitor maritime traffic to and from the Suez Canal and Israel, according to Ahmad Hasan Mohamed, an intelligence adviser to Sudan's military leader. Iran has supplied Sudan's military with explosive drones to use in its fight with a rebel warlord and offered to provide a helicopter-carrying warship if Sudan had granted permission for the base. "They also wanted to station warships there," Mohamed said in an interview, adding that Khartoum turned down Iran's proposal to avoid alienating the U.S. and Israel.