{"id":231903,"date":"2020-12-26T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=231903"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:28:26","slug":"zarifs-lies-to-whitewash-the-scandal-over-using-afghan-refugees-in-iran-as-cannon-fodder-in-the-war-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/zarifs-lies-to-whitewash-the-scandal-over-using-afghan-refugees-in-iran-as-cannon-fodder-in-the-war-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Zarif’s Lies To Whitewash the Scandal Over Using Afghan Refugees in Iran as Cannon Fodder in the War in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Qassem Soleimani, along with members of the Fatemiyoun troops (a Shiite militia affiliated with the Quds Force of Afghanistan) in Syria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Thursday, December 24, Afghanistan’s Tolonews Television station broadcast<\/a> an interview with the Iranian regime’s foreign minister Javad Zarif. The interviewer questioned him about the forced dispatch of Afghan refugees in Iran to Syria, where hundreds of them have been killed. The Q and A laid bare Tehran’s terrorist meddling in Syria, which has victimized Afghan refugees, among others.<\/p>\n

Zarif also tried to downplay the extent of Afghan refugees’ dispatch to Syria by prevaricating about their numbers. When asked whether it was true that 25,000 Afghan refugees were in Syria, Zarif deceitfully said he had heard there were only 5,000 of whom less than 2,000 were currently in Syria.<\/p>\n

The interviewer pressed further, asking Zarif, “Why do you send, Mr. Minister, Afghan to the Syrian War? Where in the world do they provide weapons to refugees and facilitate their participation in war?”<\/p>\n

Zarif brazenly replied, “They went to fight for their beliefs. Some of them erected Afghanistan’s flag in their outposts. They are the best forces with a military background in the fight against Daesh if the Afghan government, if willing, can regroup them.”<\/p>\n

Obviously skeptical of Zarif’s demagogic response, the interviewer followed up: “You had earlier said you are an international relations expert. Where in the world have you seen (a government) recruiting refugees and sending them to a third country (to fight a proxy war)?<\/p>\n

Even a more ridiculous response by Zarif: “First of all, most of them were not refugees. They came from Afghanistan and went there. Perhaps, they might have gone to other places too.” The interviewer presses on: “Interviewer: “So, if I want to take up arms, will you send me to Syria?” Surprised by the question, a desperate Zarif hangs himself with his own shoelaces: “We may arm you when you end up in Syria.”<\/p>\n

Multitudes of reports by human rights organizations and news agencies about the forcible dispatch of Afghan men, some as young as 12, to the Syrian war fronts belie Zarif’s utterly false remarks.<\/p>\n

“Iran has not just offered Afghan refugees and migrants incentives to fight in Syria, but several said they were threatened with deportation back to Afghanistan unless they did,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. “Faced with this bleak choice, some of these Afghan men and boys fled Iran for Europe.” (HRW official website, January 29, 2016)<\/a><\/p>\n

On April<\/a>\u00a02020, Parviz Fattah,\u00a0head of the Bonyad Mostazafan financial foundation<\/a>, in an acknowledged that Qassem Soleimani the eliminated commander of the terrorism Quds force had asked him money to pay the salaries of Fatemiyoun. Fattah, who also was a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)<\/a>,\u00a0in an interview with the state-run\u00a0Ofogh\u00a0(Horizon) TV in April 2020 said: \u201cI was at the IRGC Cooperative Foundation. Haj Qassem [IRGC-Quds Force<\/a>\u00a0commander\u00a0Qassem Soleimani<\/a>] came and told me he did not have money to pay the salaries of the Fatemiyoun. He said that these are our Afghan brothers, and he asked for help from people like us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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How Khamenei-linked foundation funds Iran's terror group Fatemiyoun in Syria<\/div><\/div>
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