![]() In a word, the country of the Mullahs now plans ‘ to shine in the world like a beacon of resistance.’ The colossal sums allocated by the regime of the Mullahs to support their pro-Shiite diplomacy (with a good part of the Arab world) and to ensure if not supremacy, then at least the strengthening of the Shiite axis, no doubt enable the Islamic Republic to make its voice heard, a voice which claims to be that of an ‘Islam of the oppressed.’ Everywhere in the world Tehran tries to bring together both the anti-imperialists and the anti-Americans as well as those who are opposed to the ‘corrupt regimes’ which govern the region. The break in diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Islamic Republic offers an interesting textbook case but it is one which can be understood only in the context of a global approach. The advent of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the arrival in power of the Shiites in Iraq (where Iran meddles daily in the domestic affairs) in a context of interfaith warfare, the Shiite support to terrorist groups such as Hamas in Gaza, the pro-Shiite ‘entry card’ of Iran in many moderate Arab countries are all facts which feed the now justified fears. ![]() Its renewal raises questions, fears and concerns. These past few years we have witnessed a veritable renaissance of this branch of Islam, which was in the minority and marginalised for centuries. The Shiite movement now is present as one of the unavoidable features of the geopolitics of the Near and Middle East. Not content with seeking to promote its political pawns in Iraq or in Lebanon and going well beyond the determination to build a ‘Shiite crescent’ in the Middle East under its leadership, which was sometimes attributed to it in the past, ever since the accession to power of Ayatollah Khomeiny Iran has pursued an aggressive policy towards all the Arab countries. Far from being anecdotal, the break between the two Muslim countries shed light on the destabilising role which Iran has played vis-à-vis the Arab world for the past thirty years. It followed from a crisis which flared up three weeks earlier when a key Iranian leader stated that Bahrain ‘belonged’ to Iran. This kind of measure is extremely grave and is taken comparatively rarely in relations between states. On 6 March 2009, Rabat severed diplomatic relations with Tehran.
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