The Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, is no longer seeking to purchase Iranian weapons and is instead looking to build closer ties with the United States and Saudi Arabia to end Sudan's civil war, Bloomberg reported on June 16, quoting a senior SAF source. However, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said Sudanese Islamists, who are part of the SAF coalition against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, are still "cultivating ties with and receiving technical support from the Iranian government, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," and that fighters from the Islamist Al-Baraa bin Malik Battalion, or BBMB, continue to receive training and other support from Iran's IRGC.

In September 2025, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the finance minister of Sudan's SAF-backed government, Jibril Ibrahim, as well as on the BBMB. That same month, the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt issued a plan to de-escalate the civil war, but the effort largely stalled amid the RSF's violent capture of the city of El Fasher and the SAF's maximalist position in the peace talks. The United States thereafter designated Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in March.