Militias of “Iran” main reason… of devastation in Iraq, Syria and Yemen

By: Ayat Ezz

Iran has played a pivotal role in shaping and supporting Shiite militias based in Syria and Iraq since 2011. In recent years, Hezbollah has trained and qualified them to engage in war with other countries and to use them in subversive operations in Arab countries.

Iran spends billions of dollars a year on terrorists, especially those in Syria and Iraq, according to a US government report. The Iranian defense budget is between $ 14 billion and $ 30 billion a year, much of it going to finance Shiite militias.

Iran trains armed Shiite elements based in Syria and Iraq in exchange for monthly salaries ranging from $ 500 to $ 1,000 a month

While the world was preoccupied with the elimination of a terrorist organization in the areas it controlled in Syria, Iraq and Libya after the Arab revolutions of 2011, Iran has now strived to infiltrate into the regions of the region and control its policy through the militias deployed in the region, most notably in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, .

Hezbollah is Iran’s cross-border arm, which is penetrating everywhere to expand Iranian influence around the world. In this regard, we discuss the most prominent Iranian-backed militias in the region, their roles and the areas in which they are based, and Tehran’s support for the spread of Shiism throughout the world by establishing Shiite universities and recruiting thousands of individuals and giving them Iranian citizenship to serve the expansionist Persian project in the region.

The most prominent Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq

There are a large numbers of Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria. These militias pose a great threat to the Arab countries because of what they are doing, especially as the danger posed by sectarian danger is the most prominent.

“Badr Corps”

It was founded in Tehran in 1981 by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, by the Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, who was assassinated in 2003 after months of US occupation of the country, and the militia of the Corps receive support and training from Iran (located in the continent of Asia), and was conducting military operations against the regime of Saddam Hussein, and the Badr Corps is currently the Minister of Transport in the government of Nuri al-Maliki outgoing Hadi Amiri, and includes about 12 thousand terrorists, most of them were involved in the devices Iraqi security forces and hold senior positions in the Ministry of Defense and intelligence apparatus there.

Some believe that the KPC fighters were divided between the Supreme Council, currently led by Ammar al-Hakim, and the Badr Organization led by al-Amiri, but the indications are that the majority still owe allegiance to the allied al-Maliki.

Badr Brigade is accused of being behind the killing of several former Iraqi army commanders, as well as an accused of killing air force officers and pilots, as well as members of the banned Baath Party.

After the attack by the elements of the “ISIS” terrorist, Ali Iraq last year, Maliki assigned the leadership of the General directly oversee the military operations in the province of Diyala (one of the eight provinces of Iraq) against the organization of a supporter.

“Mahdi Army”

The armed wing of the Sadrist movement led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, was founded in September 2003 to fight US forces in Iraq, and consists of young imitators of the world religion, Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, who was killed by the Iraqi Baath Party in 1999, estimated to be the number of elements up to about sixty thousand.

During 2006, the organization fought several battles against US forces in Iraq during that period, ending its battles with the Americans by losing two battles for control of Najaf and Basra and handing over its weapons to a joint Iraqi-US commission.

The Shiite organization returned once again in 2008, through terrorist attacks by Iraqi government forces, and in 2009 Sadr announced the full freeze of militia and the expulsion of those involved in the sectarian cleansing.

“Ahl Al-Hak group”

It was formed after the split of the leader of the Sadrist movement Qais al-Khazali, and was joined by thousands of terrorist elements in 2007, and Western reports say it operates under the auspices of the commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Asaib Ahl al-Haq emerged as a faction of the Mehdi Army under the name of “Special Groups” in 2004. Since its establishment, Qais al-Khazali, a close associate of Muqtada al-Sadr, has been with Abdul Hadi al-Daraji and Akram al-Kaabi.

In the beginning of 2006, the movement was operating more independently, with a total of 3,000 members, following its official announcement in 2007

In the same year, al-Khazali was arrested on the backdrop of the kidnapping and killing of five Americans in the city of Karbala in southern Iraq. The Iraqi government released him in 2010 as part of a swap deal with Al-Udayib.

“Ahl al-Haq” militia is known to be one of the most hard-line Shi’ite factions and was deeply involved in sectarian violence between 2006 and 2007.

It has claimed responsibility for nearly 6,000 attacks on US forces, its allies and Iraqi forces, and in the terrorist operations carried out by the kidnapping of British oil engineers and a US soldier in 2008 and 2009.

These militias are characterized by high weapons quality and superior material capabilities.

After the departure of US forces in late 2011, the militia announced that they gave up their weapons and joined the political process, and then became Khazali close to Maliki.

“Al-Mokhtar Army”

It is a Shiite militia affiliated to Hezbollah and Iran, led by the Shiite leader wask Al- Battat, and says that the organization extends to the Lebanese Hezbollah, and raises the same flag yellow but with different slogans.

Al-Battat has been calling for its terrorist organization since its establishment in June 2010 to kill members of the Baath party.

Al-Batat always preaches the absolute loyalty of the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and says he will fight alongside Iran if it enters into a war with Iraq on the grounds that Khamenei is “infallible

The organization has carried out many terrorist attacks in the past years, including a missile attack on the Saudi border, and from the desert of Samawah in southwestern Iraq to Saudi Arabia.

And Because of these events, US forces arrested the potato from Baghdad (the capital of Iraq), and estimated the number of members of the militia of the chosen, about forty thousand elements.

“Abu Fadl al-Abbas Brigade”

It was founded in 2011, by the Shiite Iraqi Qasim al-Tai, led by the organization Alaa al-Kaabi Shiite was previously associated with Asaab Ahl al-Haq and Iraqi Hezbollah and the Sadrists.

The brigade is one of the first Shiite factions that intervened militarily in Syria, and carried out many terrorist and sectarian operations, under the pretext of defending the tombs of the faithful parents of God.

The militia was confronted by members of the terrorist “Da’ash” organization.

“Al Quds Brigades”

An Iranian-made militia led by Soleimani, It enjoys high-level military training because of Iranian support, and always avoids speaking Arabic so as not to expose them to their Persian language (Iran), estimated at about 1,200 fighters.

“Zahraa Battalion”

It is an Iranian militia that was present in Syria and formed from the village of al-Zahra in the countryside of Aleppo from the Iranian support for them, claiming the protection of their village, and organized the ranks of the townspeople within an independent combat battalion, after they were working in the popular committees.

Advanced Iranian weapons by the Huthis

Iran’s intervention in Arab affairs continues as it sends advanced weapons and military advisers to Yemen’s armed Houthi group to increase support for its Shiite ally in a civil war that could alter the balance of power in the Middle East.

Iran has increased its role in the two-year-old conflict in Yemen, where it has stepped up arms supplies and other forms of support, and the same strategy it has adopted to support its Hezbollah ally in Lebanon.

Iran’s actions in Yemen, in an effort to increase its influence in the region, reflect what President Donald Trump has hinted at tightening sanctions against it.

“We do not lack information or evidence that the Iranians are smuggling weapons to Yemen by various means,” said Major General Ahmad Asiri, spokesman for the Arab Coalition, which is fighting the Huthis in Yemen.

“We notice that the anti-tank Kornet missile is on the ground. While it was not in the arsenal of the Yemeni army or the Houthi arsenal, it came after that.”

Western sources say Iran is using ships to deliver supplies to Yemen, either directly or through Somalia, to circumvent coalition efforts to intercept shipments. Once ships reach the region, shipments are transferred to small fishing boats that are difficult to monitor because they are scattered in those waters.