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Sudanese writer Abdul Moneim Suleiman, in an op-ed published by Al-Ain News titled “Selling Sudan – Iran’s Weapons for the Brotherhood Power,” Said that the arrest of Iranian national Shamim Mafi in the U.S. on alleged arms brokerage charges between Tehran and Port Sudan is further evidence of Iran’s “expansionist ideology” in Sudan under the doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih. He argues this reflects, a “sinister axis” linking Iran’s regional strategy with the Muslim Brotherhood, which he accuses of exploiting Sudan’s crisis of war, displacement, and famine as a pathway back to power. Suleiman also alleges that Sudan’s military leadership under General Al-Burhan, alongside Brotherhood-linked actors, has “traded away remaining sovereignty” in dealings with Iran, describing it as a collapse in the concept of the nation-state.