Orient News, July 17, 2017 – Iran has sent thousands of Afghan Shi’a to the battlefields of Syria, catapulting them to the front lines of Assad terrorists and their allies’ brutal six-year war against Syrians, some of them foreign-backed, and Islamist extremists.
Iran has sent thousands of Afghan Shi’a to the front lines of Assad
As the first line of attack, the poorly trained proxy force made up of mainly Afghan migrants and refugees known as the Fatemiyoun Division has suffered a high rate of attrition, observers say, with coffins of fallen soldiers paraded and buried in Iranian cities almost every week.
Afghan fighters are trained by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
To foster morale and lure new recruits to Fatemiyoon, Tehran is seeking to burnish the image of the beleaguered group — comprising mainly Afghan refugees from the Hazara Shia minority recruited and trained by Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
With coffins of fallen soldiers paraded and buried in Iranian cities almost every week
Iranian authorities have renamed streets to honor the Afghan Shia terrorists, Tehran media have glorified fallen “fighters” and highlighted their “sacrifices” while likening them to “martyrs,” and the group is frequently visited by General Qassem Soleimani, the head of the IRGC’s terrorist Quds Force, which is responsible for terrorist operations outside of Iran’s own borders.
