Iranian policy towards the Federal Republic of the Comoros since 2006 and its future prospects

Abstract

The issue of Iranian policy towards the Federal Republic of Comoros since 2006 is one of the topics that has not been properly highlighted, so this study came to show the importance of this republic in the Iranian strategic perception, the importance of which ranged between what is political aimed at strengthening the role and being near the shipping lanes The important maritime, especially the Bab al-Mandab strait, in anticipation of any military confrontation that threatens its interests, as well as the opening of sea and land corridors that facilitate access to Iran’s interests in East Africa, and between what is economic aimed at exporting illicit smuggled oil after imposing the neck on the Strait of Hormuz and Aden as part of international economic sanctions imposed on it because of its nuclear program, and between what is military aimed at diverting part of the US naval effort centered in the Persian Gulf to the coasts of East Africa, and between what is cultural aimed at transferring the Iranian ideology to this Islamic Republic as part of a scheme that the Iranian government is working on to expand the circle influence in the African countries.