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Iran Deploys New Forces in Syria
(Arab Weekly) Ali Alfoneh - The latest Iranian units deployed in Syria, to judge by a survey of Iranian nationals killed in combat there, are from the Saberin Brigade of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). According to Brig.-Gen. Morteza Mirian, a former commander of the brigade, Saberin was established in 2000 and modeled on Britain's Special Air Service. Maj.-Gen. Mohammad-Ali Jafari, the IRGC's current chief, served as the Saberin Brigade's first commander. The writer is a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.