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Iran Iran
Capital: Tehran
Area: 1,648,195 km2
Population: 75,149,669 (2012)
Border Countries
Official language: Persian
- Coat of Arms of Iran.
Government - Unitary state, Islamic republic
- Supreme Leader - Ali Khamenei
- President - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- First Vice President - Mohammad-Reza Rahimi
Sudan-Iran Relations
Sudan has long courted deeper ties with Iran. The two nations signed a military cooperation agreement in March 2008 and Iranian warships visited Port Sudan twice in 2012.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has made several visits to Iran. In August Bashir attended the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which was held in Tehran.
Sudanese rebels have alleged in March 2012 that Khartoum has asked for military assistance to help fight the conflicts in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. Tehran has denied that a deal has been done with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to send members to back the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) fight the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) rebel alliance.
Khartoum’s closer relations with Iran have created some rifts within Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) with foreign minister Ali Karti suggesting that the country would be better served by developing relations with Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations with predominantly Sunni populations.
History
- Median Empire - 625 BCE
- Achaemenid Empire - 550 BCE
- Safavid Empire - 1501
- Islamic Republic - 24 October 1979
- Current constitution
Currency: Rial (IRR)
Internet TLD: .ir |
Calling code: 98
- FILE PHOTO - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) hugs Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir after talks focused on boosting political and economic ties between their countries, at the Khartoum international airport. (Reuters)
Iranian Media
Links
- Friday 11 January 2013
By David L. Phillips and Ahmed Hussain Adam
January 10, 2013 - Israeli warplanes attacked Sudan’s military-industrial complex at al-Yarmouk on October 23, 2012. While the raid set-back Sudan’s weapons production – including delivery by (...)
- Saturday 11 May 2013
May 10, 2103 (KHARTOUM) - The Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari voiced Iran’s enthusiasm for stronger naval cooperation with Sudan and announced that his forces are prepared to train Sudanese naval forces. Sudanese (...)
- Monday 5 December 2011
By Toby Collins
December 4, 2011 (LONDON) – A US judge ruled on 30 November that Sudan and Iran should pay compensation to the victims of suicide bomb attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. US Embassy, Nairboi, Kenya, 1998 (...)
- Wednesday 5 March 2008
March 4, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese and Iranian delegations today started talks on military cooperation between the two countries in order to bolster bilateral military relations. Mustafa Mohamed Najjar
During an official visit to Iran (...)
- Tuesday 7 December 2010
Document leaked to Wikileaks whistle-blowing website. Published by the Guardian newspaper, Monday 6 December 2010 21.30 GMT
US embassy cables: Clinton asks Sudan to block Iranian arms supplies to Hamas
Thursday, 22 January 2009, (...)
- Wednesday 5 December 2012
December 4, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti today defended his country’s decision to receive two Iranian warships calling it normal in the context of relations between nations. United States aircraft carrier USS (...)
- Friday 26 October 2012
October 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The speaker of the Sudanese parliament, Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Tahir, declared on Thursday that the Israeli attack on Al-Yarmook arms factory will not deter his country from continuing its support to the (...)
- Monday 25 February 2013
February 24, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese oil minister Awad al-Jaz arrived in Tehran on Sunday with a letter from president Omer Hassan al-Bashir to Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmedinejad receiving Sudanese oil minister (...)
- Sunday 19 December 2010
December 19, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The United States has attempted to stop Sudan being used as a transit for Iranian arms en route to the Islamist Palestinian Hamas movement via Egypt, according to leaked documents from US embassies. (...)
- Monday 29 June 2009
By: Dalia Haj-Omar*
June 28, 2009 — While the world has been closely monitoring Iran’s “Green Revolution” in the last few days, little analysis has come from the Sudanese media and political leadership on the relevance of this historic (...)
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