Two Iranian warships left a Sudanese port on Wednesday, an AFP photographer said, after a visit coinciding with Khartoum’s denial that Iran is involved in making weapons in Sudan.
A Sudanese military band played as Iran’s naval supply ship Kharg pulled away from the dock in Port Sudan on the Red Sea, the photographer said.
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.
The factory compound exploded and burst into flames, and speculation followed that Iranian weapons were stored or manufactured there.
Sudan’s foreign ministry on Monday denied Iran had any involvement in the Yarmouk factory. It accused Israel of “spreading fabricated information”.
Iranian sailors lined the Kharg’s deck and waved their hats in the air while their Sudanese counterparts watched from the jetty.