Friday 5 February 2016

Iran - Iranian regime faces crisis in recruiting Afghans to fight in Syria

February 2015 photo of Qassem Soleimani (Left), commander  of Quds Force with Afghan commanders killed in Syria
February 2015 photo of Qassem Soleimani (Left), commander
 of Quds Force with Afghan commanders killed in Syria
The Iranian regime has dispatched thousands of foreign mercenaries including Afghan refugees to fight in Syria and prop up the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to sources of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Incapable of mobilizing and dispatching necessary troops from Iran to the conflict and apprehensive of a backlash within its forces due to rising IRGC casualties, the regime has resorted to mobilizing the mercenaries using various tactics including threating them with execution.
n recent years, particularly Afghan refugees living in Iran have been tapped for this purpose. The Iranian regime has threatened the refugees with deportation from Iran, imprisonment or even execution (all serious violations of human rights) to dispatch the Afghan refugees to Syria.

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