NCRI – The bodies of two young Afghans, killed while fighting for the Syrian dictator, were buried last week in northern Iran.
The state-run Tasnim News Agency identified the two as Mohammad Mahdi Hosseini and Mostafa Karimi. They were buried on December 26 in the city of Semnan.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been recruiting thousands of Afghan refugees to fight against the Syrian people.
The Afghan refugees are granted residency in Iran and paid $500 a month to fight for Bashar Assad, according to Afghan and Western officials, reported the Wall Street Journal in May.
A video obtained by CNN from Syrian rebels last November showed an Afghan prisoner who said: “The Iranians pay people like me to come here [Syria] and fight. I am from Afghanistan and I am an immigrant in Iran. The Iranians brought us to Syria to fight.”
He said he was paid about $500 a month to fight. There are many Afghan immigrants in Iran trying to find some shelter from the decades of war that have torn apart their land.
Afghan religious leaders in Iran and local officials in Afghanistan have confirmed the IRGC’s role in hiring Afghan refugees to fight in Syria.
Meanwhile, a group of Kabul residents staged a protest on Tuesday outside the Iranian regime’s Embassy in Kabul, calling for an end to abuse of Afghan refugees in the neighboring country.
Participants in the rally said Afghan refugees in Iran had long been mistreated and their abuse has been increased lately.
The protestors asked the Afghan government and the United Nations to take measures to stop mistreatment of Afghans in Iran and investigate the latest incidents of abuse.