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World Service,5 mins

Iran is sending Afghan refugees to fight in Syria

Newsday

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Iran is sending soldiers to fight inside Syria. But it turns out that some of those soldiers aren't Iranian - they are Afghan refugees, enticed into joining by the promise of money, jobs and passports. Afghan-Iranian photographer Mujtaba Jalili had to escape Iran after being arrested for reporting on the growing number of funerals of those Afghan refugee soldiers. He himself is now in a refugee camp in the Netherlands. He has been speaking to Newsday's Tom Hagler. (Picture: A funeral of an Afghan refugee who died in Syria fighting for Iran; Credit: Mujtaba Jalali)

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