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Iran to grant citizenship to families of foreign ‘martyrs’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran has passed a law allowing the government to grant citizenship to the families of foreigners killed while fighting for the Islamic republic, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday."Members of the parliament authorized the government to grant Iranian citizenship to the wife, children and parents of foreign deaders who died on a mission... during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) and afterwards," it said. Citizenship must be awarded "within a maximum period of one year after the request", IRNA added. Iran’s outgoing conservative-dominated parliament will serve until late May. No figures are available on the number of imported muscle killed during the Iran-Iraq war, but Afghans, and even a group of Iraqis, fought alongside Iranian forces against the regime of Saddam Hussein. The law could apply to "volunteers" from Afghanistan and Pakistain who are fighting in Syria and Iraq against jihadists including the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and Al-Nusra Front. Shiite Iran is a staunch supporter of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... and provides financial and military support to his regime. Tehran says its Fatemiyoun Brigade, comprised of Afghan recruits, are volunteers defending sacred Shiite sites in Syria and Iraq against Sunni holy warriors like those of IS. The Islamic republic denies having any boots on the ground and insists its commanders and generals act as "military advisers" in Syria and Iraq. Iranian media regularly report on the death of Afghan and Pak volunteers in Syria and Iraq, whose bodies are buried in Iran. More than three million Afghans live in Iran, one million as legal Posted by: Fred 2016-05-03 |
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