{"id":3809,"date":"2014-09-04T05:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2014-09-04T05:39:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T05:39:55","slug":"sudan-expels-iranian-diplomats-and-closes-cultural-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/09\/04\/3809\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan expels Iranian diplomats and closes cultural centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/sudans-president-Omar-al--011.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Sudan has closed all Iranian cultural centres in the country and expelled the cultural attache and other diplomats, a government source has said, without giving an explanation for the move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sudanese media speculated that the expulsions were linked to government concerns that Iranian officials were promoting Shia Islam in the largely Sunni country, but there was no confirmation from authorities.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sudan, isolated by UN and western sanctions partly linked to its conflict in Darfur, has sought allies and donors across the sectarian divides in the Middle East and further afield. That has often left it balancing competing interests and loyalties in the complex web of regional rivalries.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The country&#8217;s president, Omar al-Bashir, seized power in 1989 in a bloodless coup backed by Sunni Islamists.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sudan rejected an Iranian offer to set up air defences on its Red Sea coast after a 2012 air strike that Khartoum blamed on Israel \u2013 fearing it would upset Tehran&#8217;s regional rival, the Sunni superpower Saudi Arabia, Sudan&#8217;s foreign minister said in May.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But Sudan, where many people follow the traditional Sufi branch of Islam, has also received delegations from senior Iranian politicians.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saudi Arabia, a key US ally in the region, has been competing with Iranfor influence in the Middle East. The rivalry has in effect divided the region into two camps, with countries either allied to Saudi Arabia or to Iran.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The Sudanese government ordered the closure of Iranian cultural centres in Sudan, and asked the cultural attache and the diplomats working in office at the Iranian cultural attache to leave Sudan within 72 hours,&#8221; the government source told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <strong><em>theguardian.com<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan has closed all Iranian cultural centres in the country and expelled the cultural attache and other diplomats, a government source has said, without giving an explanation for the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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