“Iranian drones pose a direct threat to Morocco”

Iranian drones in North Africa threaten Morocco. So says Llewellyn King, executive producer and host of "White House Chronicle" on PBS.

“Today, Iranian drones are deployed in North Africa and pose a direct threat to Morocco. Moroccan diplomats are actively raising the issue with Western governments. They claim that Iran, in complicity with Algeria, is supplying the Polisario Front militias which carry out guerrilla attacks against Morocco over the kingdom's position in Western Sahara”, analyzes Llewellyn King, executive producer and host of "White House Chronicle" on PBS in the InsideSources.com columns .

Recalling that Iran's experience with drones dates back to the Iran-Iraq War between 1980 and 1988, he said the country has moved from line-of-sight drones, simplistic and only good for surveillance to generations of drones, large and small, but increasingly sophisticated. With its defense industrial complex, the Iranian army can manufacture the engines and all the parts of its drones on site. Even if it means now providing an impressive range of drones with long flight times and long delivery distances.

According to Llewellyn King, Ilan Berman, senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, told him that Iran had come to the conclusion that its strength did not lie in the competition force against force, but in the aid in asymmetric conflicts, "which explains why" the country's authorities "spent so much money and time on terrorism, and so much money and time on ballistic missiles. Then they found drones as the evolution of that strategy.”

All of which leads King to say that Morocco is right to worry about its newfound vulnerability. “Drones, while they cannot win a war, can inflict severe damage on a variety of targets, from tourist resorts and military installations to vital power grids and power stations. According to Berman, the only effective defense system against drones is Israel's "Iron Dome", built with Israeli technology and aided and funded by the United States. Morocco could order some to counter Iran's desires.