close Preparations for Somaliland’s Independence Day Flags flutter across Hargeisa as Somaliland marked its Independence Day earlier this month. (Video: Af Daily, Core News via Reuters.) NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Iran is said to be ‘deeply threatened’ by the small African breakaway state, Somaliland, because of the potential for U.S., Israeli and Western powers to use its deep water port and airbase. Such moves would severely disrupt Iran’s plan to use their proxy, Yemen’s