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Afghanistan
Cold homecoming for Afghans paid by Iran to fight in Syria
2019-04-02
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Too poor to even buy pens and notebooks for school, Mehdi left his home in Afghanistan soon after his 17th birthday and headed to Iran, hoping to make his way to Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and find work.

Instead, Mehdi ended up fighting in Syria’s civil war, a conflict he had nothing to do with, 2,000 km from home. He was one of tens of thousands of Afghans recruited, paid and trained by Iran to fight in support of Tehran’s ally, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Posted by:Fred

#1  we should be not completely upset if Iran decides to finance a Shiite insurgency in Afghanistan

plenty of Iran's proxies would die and so would a few Taliban and ISIS who are encamped in shia areas of Afgh.

unfortunately a lot of civilians would also die and be made even more miserable than they are now
Posted by: lord garth   2019-04-02 12:19  

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