May 2, 2018
KNOWING YOUR ALLIES:
Morocco Cuts Ties With Iran For Allegedly Backing Western Sahara Independence (Radio Liberty, May 02, 2018)
Morocco has severed diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran's alleged support for the Polisario Front, a Western Sahara independence movement. [...]The Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony that Morocco annexed in 1975. Polisario fought a guerrilla war for independence until a United Nations-backed cease-fire was established in 1991.Algeria, Morocco's neighbor, hosts camps for people displaced by the conflict, including members of Polisario, but denies giving military aid to the group.The Western Sahara has effectively been split by an earthen wall separating territory controlled by Polisario and an area controlled by Morocco. There is a UN-mandated buffer zone between them, and UN peacekeepers patrol the region.
A people who think themselves a nation are one.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 2, 2018 4:22 AM