Boukas To Echorouk: “Morocco Has No Right To Involve Algeria In Its disputes With The Outside World”

Former Moroccan intelligence agent and writer Farid Boukas has outlined a number of reasons why Rabat has severed its relations with Iran, on the grounds that the latter supposedly supports the Polisario Front through its Embassy in Algeria.
Mr. Boukas asserted that Rabat acted under the influence of certain international quarters and stressed that the Moroccan Monarch was willing to drive Moroccans to die in the bitter Syrian conflict in order to appease certain foreign powers.
Mr Farid Boukas was interviewed by “Echorouk” about the ins and outs of this burning issue.
How do you explain Morocco’s move to cut diplomatic relations with Iran?
Morocco’s move to sever relations with Iran came after the recent tripartite meeting held between Mohammed VI, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the Lebanese prime minister in Paris.
Since Morocco took a neutral stance on the issue of boycotting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, Qatar launched a clear campaign against Morocco notably by opposing the file of Morocco’s candidacy for the 2026,World Cup, and this is evidence that the relationship between Morocco and Saudi Arabia was then about to collapse, with the Saudi Crown Prince and the de facto ruler of the Kingdom being under the tutelage of America, in addition to the loss by Morocco of the millions of dollars that Morocco was lapping annually as a gift from the Saudi rulers , so, King Mohammed VI considered his calculations to join the Saudi-American alliance against Iran, meaning that the severance of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Iran was not linked to the Hezbollah itself, but was rather related to the strong Saudi pressure on Morocco.
Why Algeria was wrongly involved in a bilateral dispute between Morocco and Iran?
Algeria’s forced involvement in this issue has not come from a vacuum. As everyone knows, any country in difficult political circumstances must create the event and pin the blame on another country so as to absorb the anger of the people, especially since the Moroccans have moved from the policy of street protests to overt protests in the social networks.
If Morocco had claimed to have information that the Iranian Embassy in Algeria had helped Hezbollah train members of the Polisario Front’s army, it had to blame the Iranian Foreign Ministry itself and must not involve Algeria in the matter, because the latter is not a rival in such a case, and this unveils the nefarious scope of Moroccan diplomacy at the international level.
Does Morocco really have absolute sovereignty over its decisions on some regional issues? Or is it subject to the influence of other regimes, specifically from the Gulf region?
The Rabat regime, according to diplomatic norms, has no right to involve Algeria or any other country in policies that are far from it. It should be highlighted that such a decision was not a sovereign one because the Moroccan Foreign Ministry is not independent from it. Headed by Saâdeddine al-Othmani, the latter is merely a sham Government, and the Government that really governs in Morocco is the Royal Palace.
Morocco, through some analysts and media, might be going to face a military confrontation with the Polisario Front, is this possible?
The military confrontation with the Polisario Front of Western Sahara is currently ruled out. Some analysts have even suggested that Morocco has withdrawn its F-16 planes to confront the Front, but the real reason for this withdrawal is Morocco’s involvement in a war of genocide against the Yemeni people in Yemen.
Furthermore, the Moroccan regime is beset with a serious decline in the field of human rights in the Kingdom after the wide protest movement triggered off in the regions of the Rif and Jeradat, where numerous Moroccan militants were arbitrarily arrested, and the international human rights organizations firmly condemned these serious human rights violations.