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November 5, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard-fighters-refusing-to-fight-in-Syria-report-432035

Rising Iranian Casualties in Syria

(Jerusalem Post) Ariel Ben Solomon - Ali Alfoneh, an Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, told the Jerusalem Post, "My survey of open-source data, collected from the Persian language accounts of funerals in Iran, shows that 165 Iranian nationals, 154 Afghan nationals, and 26 Pakistani nationals - all Shiites - have been killed in combat in Syria since January 2013....Ever since the first Russian military engagement in Syria on September 30, there has been a marked increase in Afghan and Iranian casualties, making October the bloodiest month in the entire course of the civil war for Iranian and Afghan forces." 34 Iranians were killed in October.

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