Earlier this summer, there was an unusual story out of Morocco. On May 1, the government severed political ties with Iran and recalled its ambassador.
That’s not the unusual part; Morocco and Iran have longstanding animosity, and the government in Rabat cut diplomatic ties in 2009 (they were reinstated in 2014) and accused Iran of spreading Shiism in the country.
The unusual part is that Rabat said it had evidence that Iran was using Hezbollah to support the Polisario Front, the separatist group that has been fighting for Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco since the 1970s.
France's Strategic Shift: Recognizing Moroccan Sovereignty over Western Sahara
The decades-old dispute over Western Sahara took a significant turn on July 30th when French President Emmanuel Macron declared Morocco’s autonomy plan as the “only basis” for resolving the conflict.
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Beneath the ambitious and multi-dimensional reforms it has undertaken in recent years, Uzbekistan is rapidly becoming an important Central Asian middle power
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Antić for the South China Morning Post: "Western concerns about SCO must be allayed. Kazakhstan can help"
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) held its annual summit on July 4 in Astana, the capital of this year’s chair Kazakhstan.
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