In centers of learning Persian: Shiite tide penetrates Syria’s Aleppo

Aya Ezz

To complete the series of Iranian Shiism in Syria, Iran on Thursday, August 22, 2019, opened a center to teach Persian language in the Safira area of ​​Aleppo eastern countryside. This center specializes in the education of children, according to the site Syria News.

Ambassador City

The city of Safira is located in the southeast of Aleppo. It is the largest point for the Iranian forces to be stationed in Aleppo and its countryside. It has a manufacturing center for weapons.

The area is controlled by the so-called Baqir Brigades, backed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

The Baqir Brigade, active in the neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo, and its southern and eastern countryside, and in Deir Ezzor, and the number of its members stands at about 2000, some of them are members of the brigade from Lebanon and Iraq, but the majority of the mourners are members of the tribe Bakara, led by Sheikh Nawaf Bashir.

The militia is one of the strongest militias that stand up to Russian forces in Aleppo countryside, and there are many military skirmishes between them.

The militia opened several offices to recruit young people in the embassy, ​​in return for distributing large sums of money to the residents of the city, where the religious official in the militia was able to turn dozens of the people of the city into Shiism for 100,000 Syrian pounds per person.

Shiism in Aleppo

According to a research study entitled “Map of Shiism in Syria,” the forms and manifestations of the Iranian Shiite tide are shown in Aleppo as follows.

Al-Nokta Mosque, located near Mount Goshen, is the main center of Shiism in the city of Aleppo and its countryside. There are two villages from Aleppo suburbs that are completely Shiite, Zahra and Nabil. There are other villages where Iranian sheikhs are spread to spread Shiism.

Iran claims that the Al-Nuqta mosque contains a rock with a drop of blood from the blood of Ras al-Hussein bin Ali, so it took control of it after the withdrawal of armed factions from the city in 2016, and then turned Iran into the largest mosque for Shiism and the spread of Shiism in the city of Aleppo.

A large number of Iranian sheikhs visit this mosque every year to take blessings, and many Shiite books and leaflets are distributed.

Islamic Reconstruction and Charity Association

According to the study, this association is considered one of the most important associations in Aleppo.

The association receives support from the Shia religious authority and has built a number of hospitals and educational centers, including the Imam Hussein Institute for Islamic Studies.

Aleppo University

The University of Aleppo has become a venue for lectures and seminars on Shiism, Iran and its rise. It has discussed so far more than 50 seminars on the Iranian role in the confrontation of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and the injustice suffered by the Shiites and Umayyads.

With the state preoccupied with the war on terrorist groups, Iran has intensified its educational activities inside the university, and has succeeded in turn a large number of students into Shiism.

Shia Manbij

The Shiites were active in Manbij, southern Aleppo, and distributed to some tribal sheikhs there black turban; on the pretext that they are from the house, and they have the right to distinguish these turbans; Shiite militias, as well as some tribes, including the tribes Assasneh and Baggara.