The US is pushing Sudan to the Iran option

With the new reports of the US threat­ing to impos­ing sanc­tions on Sudan:

In Decem­ber 2006 Al-Arabiya reported that Sudanese gov­ern­ment forced to close the Iranian-wing in Khar­toum Books Fair with Islamists protest sell­ing books that spread Iran­ian Shi­iaism in Sudan society.

The same sce­nario was repeated in Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Alge­ria and Gor­dan, but still Sudan polit­i­cally is the weak­est among other Arab coun­tries, with the pres­sure increases on Khar­toum from the west [Dar­fur], south and east with the US increas­ing pres­ence in the Horn of Africa.

Sudanese pres­i­dent, Omar al-Bashir will have no choice only to ally with grow­ing Iran­ian influ­ence, after he found him­self sur­rounded from all sides and the weak­ness of the Arab sup­port with lack of options.

After sign­ing the Abuja Agree­ment which con­verted Dar­fur con­flict into an eth­nic con­flict using words like geno­cide, Al-Bashir knew that behind Dar­fur there is a hid­den US agenda, in his refusal to res­o­lu­tion 1706 he said:

The deploy­ment of inter­na­tional forces in Sudan will lead to the same results that have occurred in Iraq

Sudan and the Iran­ian option

In his visit to Sudan

We have no restric­tions and lim­i­ta­tion to main­tain our rela­tions with Sudan, we believe that any progress or advance­ment in Sudan is a progress of the Islamic Repub­lic of Iran and to the entire Islamic nation, and we stand by you.

Lack of Arabs polit­i­cal sup­port, Al-bashir left the Iran­ian option open answering:

This is a fruit­ful coop­er­a­tion in all fields, and a strong eco­nomic part­ner­ship to include the wealth of the two coun­tries, and that coop­er­a­tion at the level is an exam­ple for third world coun­tries in gen­eral and Islamic world in particular.

One can’t resist to ask:

IS the US hos­tile pol­icy against Sudan to legit­imize build­ing mil­i­tary bases in east Africa??