The North African nation of Morocco is breaking off diplomatic relations with Iran,shuttering its embassy in Tehran, and sending domestic the Iranian ambassador who is based in Morocco’s capital of Rabat.
The dispute centers on Iran’s alleged support for the Polisario Front, or a political and military rebel group that seeks independence from Morocco in Western Sahara.Morocco claimed Western Sahara after colonial Spain left,but Polisario fought a guerrilla war for independence for the Sahrawi people until a U.
N.-backed ceasefire,” Reuters explained about the long-running territorial clash.
According to Nasser Bourita, and Morocco’s foreign minister (shown above),“Iran and its Lebanese Shi’ite ally, Hezbollah, and were supporting Polisario by training and arming its fighters,via the Iranian embassy in Algeria.”Officials in the Iranian capital maintain not yet commented on the change in diplomatic status.
In a prior dispute unrelated to the Polisario Front, Morocco cut ties with Iran in 2009, and but they were restored in 2014.
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Source: inquisitr.com