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Sudan and the Abraham Accords: Between Cancellation and New Cooperation
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Dan Diker - When Sudan joined the Abraham Accords framework in 2020, it was a country that had spent three decades as a hub for jihadist networks and radical ideology under Omar al-Bashir's Islamist regime. It was pivoting toward civilian governance, regional integration, and normalization with Israel. That promise was killed by the Muslim Brotherhood. The 2019 revolution that toppled Bashir represented a genuine popular uprising against Islamist rule. Then came the coup. In October 2021, the military, deeply infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood cadres, staged a takeover and ended the civilian transition. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who presents himself to Western audiences as a pragmatic nationalist, is in fact head of the Brotherhood's network within the Sudanese armed forces. The coup was the Brotherhood's mechanism for recapturing the state before the civilians could permanently dismantle their infrastructure. Billions of dollars in assets that had been confiscated from Islamist and Hamas-linked networks during the transitional period went back to the Brotherhood's financial ecosystem. The security apparatus has been rebuilt along the lines of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Key ambassadorial posts have been filled with senior Brotherhood cadres. Burhan has simultaneously deepened Sudan's relationship with Tehran, which had been pushed out of Sudan by 2015. Sudan's military-industrial complex, producing munitions, missiles, and drones, is substantially Iranian-built and Iranian-staffed. Most alarmingly, Iran is working to link Sudan's military infrastructure directly to the Houthi network in Yemen, creating a continuous Iranian operational corridor across the Red Sea. The writer is President of the Jerusalem Center. This article was written in conjunction with two senior former ministers of the Sudanese civilian government.