Inside the Sudanese army coalition split over Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood

Inside the Sudanese army coalition split over Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood Submitted by Mohammed Amin on Sat, 04/11/2026 - 09:00 Under pressure from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the West, Sudanese general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has condemned Iranian strikes Sudanese army soldiers pictured in Khartoum on 23 August 2025 (Ebrahim Hamid/AFP) Off On Wednesday, as the proposed two-week halt to the war on Iran was being announced, Sudan ’s army-led government issued a statement condemning Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia ’s Jubail industrial city. The statement joined others issued in the six weeks since the US and Israel attacked Iran , and appeared again to be a bit of diplomatic repositioning from Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s de facto head of state, after elements of his coalition had very publicly backed the Islamic Republic. The war on Iran has highlighted divisions in the Sudanese army’s coalition, which includes self-proclaimed jihadist groups as well as secular activists who participated in the Sudanese revolution that led to the removal of Islamist-backed autocrat Omar al-Bashir.