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| More than 1,000 Iranian combatants KIA in Syria |
| 2016-11-23 |
| [AFP] More than 1,000 combatants sent from Iran to fight in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria have been killed in the conflict, the head of Iran’s veterans’ affairs office said Tuesday. “The number of martyrs from our country defending the shrines has now passed 1,000,” Tasnim news agency quoted Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahalati, the head of Iran’s Foundation of Martyrs’ and Veterans’ Affairs, as saying. Iran has sent military advisers, as well as fighters recruited from Afghanistan and Pakistan, to work with Assad’s forces. They are known in Iran as “defenders of the shrines” in reference to Shiite holy sites in Syria. Shahidi did not specify the nationalities of those killed. The Fatemiyoun Division of Afghan recruits organized by Iran comprises the majority of volunteers sent from Iran to fight in Syria and Iraq. Iran says they are sent to fight against Sunni extremists such as ISIS. The Islamic republic denies having any boots on the ground in Syria, and insists its commanders and generals of the elite Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations wing act as “military advisers” both there and in Iraq. Iranian media regularly report on the death of Iranian, Afghan and Pakistani “martyrs” in Syria, whose bodies are buried in Iran. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #5 from ye vasty heap... One Saturday night in Dungannon, A leprechaun brandished his cannon: "You're cute with yer toots On yer yuge Orange flutes, But you're nothin' to mighty Mike Shannon!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-11-23 23:50 |
| #4 Yeah, that's why we have softball leagues. WATCH YOUR HEAD PAPIST DAWG ! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-11-23 20:19 |
| #3 the gold-domed Sayyidah Zaynab - sounds like one of those monuments that are worshipped like idols and should - therefore - be demolished by "The Pure". Makes me extra thankful I live in a place where most of the co-religionists have stopped killing each other. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-11-23 12:31 |
| #2 1000 is a lot of 'advisors' to lose in combat |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-11-23 09:21 |
| #1 According to official Iranian news service the gold-domed Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque and Shrine, located near Damascus, is one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam outside of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. "It houses the remains of Zaynab, granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed and daughter of Ali ― the fourth leader of the early Islamic empire and one of the most revered figures in Shiism." |
| Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897 2016-11-23 06:26 |