Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and the Fatemiyoun Brigade

An interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif indicating Tehran’s involvement and interference in Afghanistan has stirred controversy. Zarif acknowledged some 2,000 Afghans fought alongside pro-regime forces in Syria under the Fatemiyoun brigade. “How irresponsible of Mr. Zarif to refer to these poor people, who would go fight in a foreign war out of a lack of opportunity and in an attempt to feed their families, as volunteers” Javad Zarif said that most of the Afghans who fought in Syria have rejoined normal life and that he has heard about five thousand Afghan fighters and that less than 2 thousand of them are in…