Wonderful. What are they carrying?
I know that Ethiopia is trying to counter Egypt, Wondering what kind of equipment they want to buy from Iran?
Drones and missiles?
The distance between Ethiopia and Egypt is too large for a military confrontation between the two, and thus for Ethiopian arms purchases to be meant to push back Egypt. The two countries are separated by (North) Sudan and Eritrea. North Sudan, let alone the formerly unified state of Sudan (before the southern part seceded with western backing in 2011), is larger than Iran in surface area.
Since last year Ethiopia has been at war with local forces from its own Tigray region to the north of the country. This is what they seem to be acquiring Iranian weapons for.
And from 1998 to 2000, Ethiopia fought a war against Eritrea, which had seceded from it in 1991. But today Eritrea is supporting Addis Abeba against its opponents in Tigray, given that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy reached a peace agreement with Eritrea.
Yet another great nation in northeast Africa, an old historic one this time, threatened with step by step disintegration, like Sudan before it. Of course the usual imperialist suspects appear to be having a hand in the tragedy.
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-eritrea-africa-98aa53d5ca10d5cd1992209ad4bbcb57
By the way, current Iranian transfers of weapons to Ethiopia are facilitated if not made possible at all by the US regime's historic defeat at the UN, when Washington attempted in vain to illegally extend the arms embargo which expired on October 20, 2020 in accordance with the JCPOA. So it is now confirmed that Washington's failure did not remain without consequences and was more than just symbolic.
