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July 26, 2023

Iran Attempts to Make Diplomatic Inroads into Africa

With questionable success.

Earlier this month, the Islamic Republic’s Prime Minister Ebrahim Raisi visited Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe—the first visit to Africa by a head of the Iranian government in eleven years. Jacques Neriah explains that Raisi’s overtures to these countries are part of a larger “diplomatic blitz” with the goal of improving relations with North Africa, Sudan, and East Africa, intended in part to counter Israel’s improving relations with the continent:

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