Israeli officials concerned about new Iranian base in Eritrea

Text of report by centrist Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on 29 March [Report by Nadav Shragay: "The Iranian Threat in the Red Sea"] The concerns that Israel and Western countries have harboured over the tightening relations between Iran and countries in the Horn of Africa have now proved to be well-founded. Iran, which has been building close relations with Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea, recently built a naval base near the Assab Port, which is located in an isolated desert stretch in Eritrea near the border with Djibouti...