Analysis: Iran’s Fleeting Golden Opportunity in Sahel Region

For years, Iranian analysts have been talking about their country’s ignoring of opportunities in Africa. Some encourage a redefinition of the relations with this continent while others talk about investing there. But the reality is that when they talk about significance of Africa and reactivating the Iranian role, they talk about North Africa, like Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and Morocco as they are the most important countries in this part of Africa, where they have many cultural and religious commonalities with Iran and just contrary to South Africa are less influenced by the Christian culture and indeed the West.