I keep having to ask myself, “what is it that Polisario really wants?” I know what Algeria really wants. They want the Western Sahara issue to drag on forever, all the better to keep poking Morocco in the eye with it. And in that project, Polisario is their ever ready stick.
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IRAN's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps is training and arming the Polisario Front, sparking fear and concern of Great Britain, wrote British "Daily Express".
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Iran opens up new front in global battle against Western allies by funding rebel group in North Africa, wrote British daily "The Sun".
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The Hezbollah-Polisario collusion is still making international headlines following Morocco’s decision to cut ties with Iran. An op-ed in the Washington-based political newspaper, The Hill, wrote that the collaboration between Polisario and Hezbollah unveils Iranian toxic” strategy.
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The decision of Morocco to sever its diplomatic relations with Iran matches the gravity of acts by Hezbollah, which is supported by this country and threatens the security of the Kingdom, said Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, assuring that Morocco, which has irrefutable evidence, would not have...
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Iran’s regional ambitions in the Middle East from Syria and Lebanon to Yemen are well-known. What is new is that Tehran is widening the geographic scope of its expansionism into North Africa as well.
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Morocco cannot afford a diplomatic confrontation with the U.N. veto yielding Russia. Nonetheless, the two nations should be able to talk frankly about issues of national interests without damaging their friendship.
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Speaker of the Arab Parliament Mechaal Ben Fahm Al-Selmi reiterated, on Wednesday in Rabat, the body's support for Morocco against any meddling in its domestic affairs or threat to its sovereignty, security and stability.
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While a host of pundits and political commentators have presented the recent Rabat-Tehran rupture as multilayered, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin believes that the real reason can be attributed to a far simpler cause: differences in ideology.
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While diplomats debate what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s revelations of a secret Iranian nuclear archives mean, 2,500 miles away another press conference dropped another surprising bombshell alleging Iranian malfeasance.
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After a few last minute grumbles from Russia and a few meaningless word adjustments, the UN Security Council has voted approval of a new mandate for MINURSO, the Western Sahara peacekeeping mission, now into its 27th year of a so far fruitless search to find some compromise political solution to...
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The Kingdom of Morocco has decided to break off its relations with Iran because of the military support of its ally the Hezbollah movement for the "polisario", announced Tuesday minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita.
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Polisairo leadership and proponents have often claimed to represent the population of the Sahara, despite the fact that Sahrawis have never voted for the separatist militia neither in the Tindouf camps nor in the Sahara provinces, which usually register higher turnout in Morocco’s local and...
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There is a strong feeling among Sahrawi refugees, Polisario’ s military and civilian officials, and pro-independence groups that Algerians started growing restless and annoyed with the presence of their Sahrawi “guests” on their soil. Has the Polisario overstayed the Boumediene welocome?
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Formerly a Spanish colony known as Spanish Sahara, Western Sahara is the area of an ongoing territorial conflict between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi rebel movement POLISARIO (the Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro), backed by Algeria....
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The Paris-based news magazine, Jeune Afrique, criticized Algeria’s repeated reluctance to assume responsibility in the Western Sahara conflict on Monday.
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For the past five years one of Morocco’s main goals with US policymakers has been to persuade official Washington that it could advance prospects for a “mutually agreed political solution” in Western Sahara by helping them to improve the quality of life for the residents of the region and help...
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Leaders of political parties, MPs, elected officials, Chioukhs, dignitaries and Sahrawi leader activists, who gathered on Monday in Laayoune as part of a national mobilisation meeting, condemned the manoeuvers led by the enemies of Morocco’s territorial integrity, particularly the recent acts of...
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Since the meeting of the interior and foreign affairs ministers with the joint committee of the parliament in charge of foreign policy on Sunday, April 1, we have witnessed a proliferation of statements by Moroccan officials on Morocco’s determination to repel any Polisario attempt to change...
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Jordan reaffirmed Wednesday its position in support of the Moroccan identity of the Sahara and the autonomy initiative.
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The European Court of Justice has once again set off another political brouhaha between Morocco and the European Union over the issue of their fisheries agreement.