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Source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/iran%E2%80%99s-mischief-morocco-problem-181702
Iran's Mischief in Morocco
(National Interest) Emanuele Ottolenghi - Moroccan intelligence arrested a Hizbullah member upon his entry to the country on Jan. 6, who was caught carrying multiple European passports and identity cards. Morocco broke off relations with Iran in 2009 over an Iranian clerical official's statement that Bahrain really belonged to Iran. In 2018, a year after Tehran had reopened its embassy, Morocco's foreign minister, Nasser Bourita, accused Iran of dispatching Hizbullah operatives and supplying weapons and training to the Polisario Front in the Western Sahara which is fighting Morocco. Morocco has also accused Iran of efforts to spread its revolutionary brand of Shi'ism among Morocco's predominantly Sunni population. The writer is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.