The Dangerous Ties Between the Polisario Front and Iran: An Underestimated Threat to Europe?

A new report of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), published on 17 April, has refocused global attention on Iran's growing involvement in North Africa, highlighting a phenomenon of growing concern in the international community, namely the instrumentalization and internationalization of the dispute over the Sahara by State and non-State actors, in particular Iran and its allies.

The Dangerous Ties Between the Polisario Front and Iran: An Underestimated Threat to Europe?

In recent years, the conflict in Western Sahara has revealed increasingly complex and troubling geopolitical dynamics. Among the most pressing of these is the growing alignment between the Polisario Front and the Islamic Republic of Iran, a convergence that should no longer be overlooked by European policymakers. This emerging partnership, combining ideological affinity and strategic utility, echoes the modus operandi that Iran has long employed…

Iran’s Foothold Reaches into North Africa

PDF Button By Ahmad Sharawi & Mariam Wahba (Research Analysts) The “Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)” a research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy, based in Washington, D.C., United States, on 17 April 2025 published an article titled “Iran’s Foothold Reaches Into North Africa’’. The article states that “in the early days of the Israel-Hamas […] Related Posts: The 7th Regional Forum of the Union for the Medi…