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April 25, 2025

With Help from Russia, Iran Has Expanded Its Terror Network into Northwest Africa

Washington should support Morocco in its fight with the Polisario Front.

On April 11, the South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson announced a plan to introduce legislation designating the Polisario Front as a terrorist group, noting that it serves the interests of Russia and Iran. This guerrilla force is based in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony of uncertain status, much of which is under Moroccan control. Amine Ayoub explains that Polisario increasingly resembles Iranian proxies in the Middle East, and fits into a larger project of destabilization in the region:

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