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Over 2,000 Afghans Sent by Iran Killed in Syria
[AnNahar] More than 2,000 Afghans deployed by Iran have been killed fighting in Syria on the side of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
's regime, an official in the volunteer force told Iranian media.

The Fatemiyoun Brigade of Afghan "volunteer" recruits has been fighting in Syria for five years, said Zohair Mojahed, a cultural official in the brigade.

"This brigade has given more than 2,000 deaders and 8,000 maimed for Islam," he said in an interview with the reformist Shargh newspaper published Saturday.

Iran rarely provides figures on the numbers fighting and killed in its operations in Syria and Iraq.

The last toll was provided by the veterans organization in March, which said 2,100 volunteers had died without specifying how many were foreign recruits.

Iran denies sending professional troops to fight in the region, saying it has only provided military advisers and organized brigades made up of volunteers from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistain.

The Fatemiyoun is reportedly the biggest military unit deployed by Iran in Iraq and Syria, made up of recruits from Afghanistan's Shiite minority.

Iran has backed Afghan forces in the past against the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 in their own country, as well as mobilizing them against Saddam Hussein's forces in the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
Oh?
Some 3,000 Afghans died fighting Iraq in the 1980s, Mojahed said.
Fascinating.
Tehran offers Iranian citizenship to the families of those imported muscle "martyred" in the conflicts of Syria and Iraq.
And the families of those injured to badly to be able to work?
Iranian media has reported on the funerals of volunteer "deaders" and aired television features about their presence in Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-07
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