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269: EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVES OF EXCLUSIVES Part IV: Iran Gains African Foothold up to Chad through Pacts with the Sudan
12 May, 2008

EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVES OF EXCLUSIVES Part IV: Iran Gains African Foothold up to Chad through Pacts with the Sudan

Monday 21st April 2008

Iran jumped in with gusto to meet Sudan president Omar al-Bashir’s application for a military package including sales of arms and the training of his army. The application was received after the horrendous Darfur tragedy and Khartoum’s backing for Chad rebels finally convinced the Sudan’s traditional arms suppliers, Russia, China, and Libya, to back away from arming Sudan’s 120,000-strong army.

Beijing, sensitized to its international image by the approaching Olympic Games in August, came in last. Libya has a major beef with Khartoum for backing the rebels fighting to overthrow the Chad president.

The pacts were signed on 8th March 2008 by Iran’s Defence Minister and his Sudanese counterpart. For years Teheran had been building up its military ties with Khartoum with an eye on its geopolitical assets: a long coast on the Red Sea, main sea lanes to the Persian Gulf, a Moslem nation located opposite Saudi Arabia and next door to Egypt, and Sudan’s command of oil resources and the White Nile, a major water source for an entire African region. This strategic jewel finally dropped into Iran’s fundamentalist lap. Iranian sources disclosed its substance on 14th March 2008:

1: The Sudanese Army will gradually adjust from Russian and Chinese weaponry to Iranian-made ones.

2: A 50% discount on Iranian arms and weaponry sold to Sudan. Ahmedinejad is really pouring the Iranians’ blood on external chaos and havoc projects.

3: Iran will build a military industry in the Sudan for the manufacture of Iranian weapons; at half the cost.

4: The two governments will establish a joint military commission to translate mutual defense collaboration into practical form. Each undertakes to come to the other’s aid in the event of foreign aggression.

5: The two air forces, navies, and armored corps will exchange delegations to plan strategic synchronization.

6: Iran will help Sudan plan and construct security systems for strategic locations, such as oil fields, ports, and the Nile River dams, at half the costs.

The $1.8 billion White Nile River Merowe Dam Hydropower Project which includes a 174-kilometer long reservoir, is funded by China and Arab countries. Chinese, Sudanese, German, and French companies participate in this project and in the Kajbar Dam downstream of the Merowe Dam. The Sudanese government is afraid that Egypt, which claims the Merowe project is diverting its water supply, may attack and destroy the project.

7: Iran has assumed responsibility for sending instructors to train Sudanese Army Units deployed in Darfur. To disguise the aid rendered to forces perpetrating atrocities in Darfur, the Iranians have set up a number of welfare facilities in the province. They have also built a military hospital to serve the Sudanese Army.

Sources disclose that in 2006, Sudan secretly permitted Iran to deploy intelligence agents along its border with Chad. These agents were entrusted with three missions:

1: To subjugate the Chad tribes working the uranium deposits of eastern Chad preparatory to their seizure

2: To establish links with Chadian elements willing to challenge Libyan influence

3: To strike west via Chad and hook up with the terrorist organizations battling Western influence on the African continent.

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