At
a time when the Iraqi people are in their massive nationwide demonstrations
demanding government officials respond to their basic living necessities, and
all countries across the region are emphasizing on the people’s legitimate
rights, Iran is in pursuit of its own policy.
Through the Revolutionary Guards
Quds Force Tehran is busy continuously sending more and more consignments of
weapons, missiles, and equipment for militant forces linked to Iraq to maintain
their readiness to crackdown against any change on the ground in this country.
Iran is concerned about the Iraqi people’s uprising growing to annihilate all
signs of corruption, and to this end the focus turning to the dossier of
Iran-backed militants’ measures. As a result these forces will no longer be
able play their role in Iraq as Iran’s proxies. Therefore, in addition to
sending consignments of weapons and ammunition, Iran has launched different
training courses to revive the broken spirits of these units.
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Currently Abu Mehdi al-Mohandess is the senior coordinator of logistical and
back up support for the Popular Mobilizatoin Forces (PMF). These measures are
carried out through Iran’s borders and especially the Mehran border crossing by
organizing forces and specific assets from each militant group. A
representative of each PMF militant group receives his portion of the weapons
consignment at the Iran-Iraq border and transfers them to its own bases and
caches. These ordnances are then sold on the black market, or used in
transactions with other militant groups. Four-barrel and single barrel
anti-aircraft guns, artillery guns, BKC machine guns, AK-47s, 107mm rockets,
various types of missiles, mortar rounds and different types of ammunition.
Even food supplies and rice rations for these units are provided from Iran. In
this regard Badr militants are known to receive the most amount of support, and
this is due to Hadi al-Ameri’s very close relations with senior Iranian
officials.
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In these consigments from Iran there were also some very worn-out weapons such
as small arms, 12.7mm guns and 14.3mm single barrel guns numbering at over 200
pieces. They were all out of order and unusable for the militants, and they too
were trying to find buyers on the black market.
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Currently the militants, including the Badr forces, and also Ashura and
Sarayaye Jihad battalions present in the Saqlaviya region northwest of
Fallujah, are very low in morale and spirits, and are literally left in limbo
conditions. To keep their forces in the front lines commanders are constantly
resorting to lies about preperations for a major operation and that they will
soon take over all Sunni areas and cleanse those grounds of any Sunnis. The
militant commanders are mainly concerned about how to lift the spirits of their
forces in order to forget about the waves of recent defeats and setbacks. In
such conditions they know very well that only 25% of the troops sent for leave
will actually return, and the rest will never be seen in the frontlines. Their
forces are defecting more and more each day.
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In coordination with Iran some of these forces have recently been dispatched to
the Lebanese Hezbollah to undergo new training courses. Some of these troops
are from the Ashura and Iraq Hezbollah battalions that have been sent to
Lebanon. These training courses are of course nothing new and during the past
year alone these militants have been sent to Lebanon many times for training.
Upon their return most of them are not willing to take part in the fighting,
and are seen fleeing their ranks and files.
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