NCRI – A top commander of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) revealed the formation and existence of a “Shiite Liberation Army led by General Qassem Soleimani.” In an interview published on the state-run website Mashregh news, General Mohammad-Ali Falaki explains that this army obeys the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader and acts in several fronts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Moreover, it is not only composed of Iranians.
Falaki, has been the head of the equipment brigade of the 10th division of the IRGC, commissioned in Syria called “the Fatemiyoun”.
The IRGC commander stressed the need to recruit more among the millions of Afghans residing in Iran to fight in the war in Syria. However, while carefully avoiding the fact that most of these Afghans are bound for financial reasons, he stated that among Fatemiyoun only 20% to 25% are practicing Muslims. He evoked questions about the barrier between the Revolutionary Guards and the Afghans, because of prejudice in Iranian society which, according to him, regards Afghans as “drug dealers and dangerous offenders”.
Falaki participated in the operation Moharam last year around Aleppo which resulted in a crushing defeat for the Iranian regime’s forces.
This “Shiite Liberation Army”, he specified, is a blend of the division of Afghans “Fatemiyoun,” division of Pakistanis “Zeynabioun,” division of Iraqis “Heydarioun”, division of Lebanese Hezbollah and another division Hezbollah consisted of Syrian militias. These troops are under the command of the Revolutionary Guards, although its HQ also includes non-Iranian officers.
This puzzle is solved “in the same uniform, the same flag, the same organization and made Jihad on the same front,” says Falaki.
It makes Fatemiyoun the nucleus of the liberation army “and Shiite Muslim” in Syria.
He added that the goal is to erase the name of Israel from the world map and to station these troop on its borders in the next twenty years.
He also added that 30 to 40% of the army of Assad joined the opposition.
Falaki reported that some of the commandos of the Iranian regime’s army who fought last year in Syria have been incorporated into the Afghan division, before confiding that they “were alongside Fatemiyoun brothers with the same organization, the same uniform and shared the same trenches.”
This interview was broadcasted by the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to the IRGC Quds Force whose commander is Qassem Souleimani.
Commenting on the IRGC commander’s statement, Shahin Gobadi, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said that “the announcement of the construction of a ‘Shiite Liberation Army’ by the IRGC demonstrates that the clerical regime leads and feeds a sectarian war in the region. This statement describes a situation. The interference of the Iranian theocracy aims to divide the region between Sunnis and Shiites.”
Gobadi further clarified that “the Iranian regime’s war effort is not aimed at eliminating Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) but rather is aimed at the resistance and the Syrian civil population in particular in Aleppo.” He added, “The remarks by an IRGC commander come when recruitment among Afghans has proven more difficult. The high number of deaths and sectarian behavior of the regime deters Afghan residents in Iran. The propaganda machine of the Quds Force also aims, through these publications, to boost the morale of troops which is at its lowest after the failures of the IRGC and its militia in the south of Aleppo. Faced with public discontent over the rising number of Iranian casualties in Syria, the mullahs’ regime has been forced to send in higher numbers of Afghan fighters as cannon fodder.”
“The Iranian regime is facing countless domestic and regional crises and believes its only recourse at home to be in further stepping up executions and public hangings. Abroad the regime is trying to further meddle in the region, however its strategy is already having a reverse impact. In a nutshell, the mullahs’ regime is at a strategic impasse and abyss,” Gobadi added.