France 24 ^[1]
November 1, 2012

The United States said Wednesday it was monitoring a visit by two Iranian warships to a Sudanese port this week, but had no details about it.

The warships left Port Sudan on the Red Sea earlier, an AFP photographer said, after a visit that coincided with Khartoum’s denial that Iran is making weapons in Sudan.

Acting US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States was “obviously watching that closely.”

“We monitor Iran’s activities in the region very closely,” he added.

Sudan’s links to Iran have come under scrutiny after Khartoum accused Israel of sending four radar-evading aircraft to strike the Yarmouk military factory in the heart of the capital Khartoum at midnight on October 23.

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