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U.S. Identifies Nine Training Camps in Iran for Afghans

Afghan fighters used in Syria by Tehran as proxies

U.S. intelligence agencies recently identified nine training camps inside Iran where jihadists from Afghanistan are being schooled for fighting in Syria, according to U.S. defense officials.

The camps are part of a large-scale paramilitary training program run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Islamic shock troops, to battle Syrian rebels opposing the regime of Bashar al Assad that Tehran is backing.

The camps were identified in satellite photographs located in areas of northeastern Iran close to the Iraqi border, said officials familiar with intelligence reports of the training.

“As a result, Iran’s malign influence in the region is growing quickly,” he added. “The IRGC is increasingly the most powerful force in many Middle Eastern capitals, including Damascus.”

Pompeo said the Iranian people “would be better served if their leaders spent funds on domestic improvement, instead of supporting international terrorist groups.”

Security affairs analysts said the camps are part of an Iranian program to promote its brand of Islamic jihad, or holy war, toward creation of an Iran-dominated Islamic region or caliphate.

Sebastian Gorka, Horner professor of military theory at Marine Corps University, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accurately described the Middle East today in a recent address to Congress as a two-way “Game of Thrones” in creating an Islamic caliphate.

“The murder and mayhem is not simply about Sunni jihadis like al Qaeda or the Islamic State,” Gorka said. “It is also about the competing Shia vision of their own expanding caliphate which has succeeded and is now gaining ground in Syria.”

If reports of the training camps for Afghans in Iran are confirmed, “then the mullahs have upped their game,” Gorka said....

The Iranian exile group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,known as MEK, estimates Tehran has dispatched more than 70,000 fighters, including both Iranians and foreign fighters, to the conflict.

They include between 15,000 and 20,000 fighters of a group called the Fatemiyoun, an Afghan militia set up by IRGC Quds Force.

IRGC army cadets / AP