Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina has introduced legislation to designate the polisario front as a foreign terrorist organization.
Wilson’s bill is co-sponsored on a bipartisan basis with Democratic Congressman Jimmy Panetta.
The bill outlines a legislative framework aimed at designating the Polisario Front as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under U.S. law with increasing ties to state and non-state actors hostile to US interests, specifically Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia.
These connections are portrayed as not only a threat to regional stability but also as part of a broader geopolitical effort to undermine the security of the Kingdom of Morocco, a long-standing U.S. ally.
“The Polisario is a Marxist militia backed by Iran, Hezbollah and Russia providing Iran a strategic outpost in Africa and destabilizing the Kingdom of Morocco, a U.S. ally for 248 years,” Wilson said in a tweet.
