Mauritania's Aziz in Tehran

Mauritania is considered pretty peripheral by most Arabs (at least if they've even heard of it), but General Abd al-Aziz, its current military strongman, broke the country's ties with Israel (it used to be a great trivia question: the only Arab states with full diplomatic relations with Israel were Egypt, Jordan — and Mauritania).

Now he's trying to collect. He's been in Turkey (no big problem there) and Iran. Here's The Moor Next Door on the visit. It will be interesting to see what Mauritanian blogger Dekhnstan, who is not General Abd al-Aziz' greatest fan, may have to say.