By luring and exploiting them, Iran targets the poor to recruit them to its militia

 The number of Iranian recruited fighters in northern Syria has increased to 13.5 thousand, as the militias of Tehran proceed to lure young people with money to join the ranks of the combat for their favor. According to the Secretary of the Free Syrian Lawyers Association, lawyer Yusef Hussein, the Iranian forces are involved in the north of the country. western the Euphrates, Albu Kamal, and Deir Ezzor countryside, emphasizing, in his speech, that the Iranian forces and their militias like the Lebanese Hezbollah, carry out covert recruitment operations in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and the western banks of the Euphrates River. He added that the deterioration of life conditions with the absence of job opportunities contributes to increasing recruitment and conversion in those areas.

A24