Recent cooperation between Russia and Iran has made Western countries quite dissatisfied. After all, after receiving help from Iran, especially Iran's suicide drone, the Russian army has indeed reversed a certain situation on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. Therefore, Western countries are also beginning to undermine cooperation between Russia and Iran. At present, an Iranian general and an Iranian colonel who are responsible for selling drones to Russia have been assassinated. At the same time, many American media have begun to advocate that Iran recruit former Afghan government troops for Russia, especially former Afghan special forces, to participate in the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict.
According to the report of the US "War Zone" website, after the US military hastily evacuated Afghan , a large number of former Afghan government troops finally chose to flee to neighboring countries for refuge in order to avoid liquidation and retaliation from the Afghan Taliban . About 40,000 former Afghan government soldiers fled to Iran, more than 5,000 of which were former Afghan special forces. Former Afghan Special Forces Commander Haibatula Arizai said that Iran has begun recruiting Afghan soldiers for Russia a long time ago. Some of the Afghan soldiers are still receiving relevant training in Iran, and the other part of the Afghan soldiers have been sent to the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield to fight.
Haibatula Arizai said that for Russia, the former Afghan government forces, especially the former Afghan special forces, have greatly helped Russia because these former Afghan special forces guide the tactics of all Western countries. Over the past 20 years, these former Afghan special forces soldiers have not only received training in US special forces , but also have close contact with NATO troops and are very familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of Western troops and soldiers.
Foreign Policy magazine also reported on this situation, saying that these former Afghan soldiers are now "no country, no hope, no future." Many former Afghan soldiers fled Afghanistan with their families and now they can only find jobs with a daily salary of $3-4, which is completely insufficient to support their families. When there are professional mercenaries companies that intend to recruit them, they won't mind re-transforming their military skills into money.
Haibatula Arizai told the War Zone website that Iran began corresponding actions shortly after former Afghan soldiers fled to Iran. In November last year, Iran had already started recruiting them. However, at that time, the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine had not yet broken out, so Iran mainly recruited them to Yemen to participate in combat operations supporting the Houthi armed organizations. And when the Russian army was in a tight spot in the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, Iran began to send them to the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield.
Currently, Iranian intelligence agencies mainly cooperate with Russian private military company Wagner. Wagner offered them a monthly salary of US$1,500, and their families in Iran will be able to be effectively protected. If they perform well, their families can even immigrate to Russia. This level of income and promise is enough to impress most former Afghan special forces soldiers.
Haibatula Arizai learned from his former Afghan Special Forces commander friend that after agreeing to the recruitment, these former Afghan Special Forces soldiers will be taken to Iran Mashhad to carry out special training on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. At present, the Russian army has recruited about 3,000 former Afghan Special Forces soldiers, and the Russian army's ultimate goal is to recruit 5,000 people to meet their combat needs on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield.
However, the author believes that Western countries have obviously exaggerated this situation. As a private military contractor, Russia's Wagner certainly won't give up recruiting former Afghan special forces to improve his strength. In fact, it is not just Russia's Wagner, the United States' Blackwater Company and private military contractors from some Western countries, but also has been recruiting former Afghan special forces and putting them into various combat missions.
At this time, Western countries clamored that Iran would recruit former Afghan special forces soldiers for Russia and devoted them to the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. The purpose was to highlight the cooperation between Russia and Iran in the military field, and use this as an excuse to try to impose sanctions on Iran, and finally complete the destruction of military cooperation on Russia and Iran. This kind of thing has been implemented frequently in Western countries before, and it is completely familiar with it.
The earliest news about Russia hiring foreign soldiers to fight was that after a large number of Western mercenaries entered Ukraine to help the Ukrainian army fight, Russia also followed up and said that it would recruit "volunteers" from Syria and other regions to assist the Russian army in fighting. These "volunteers" are mainly responsible for the maintenance of rear or second-line positions together with the Dongwu militia, and have not invested on the front line on a large scale.
After Russia carried out partial mobilization, although the Russian army may still be a little short of its strength in a short period of time, it does not require large-scale recruitment of mercenaries from abroad to fight. Overall, this is more like Wagner's own behavior. It is no secret that the Russian army hired Wagner's company to perform military missions on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, but as the war expanded, Wagner's business volume increased and needed more manpower to help.
What people are more interested in is actually how many weapons and equipment will Iran provide to Russia in the future. In addition to "high-end ammunition" such as drones and ballistic missiles and , Russia has even begun to purchase basic equipment such as helmets and bulletproof vests and from Iran. If it weren't for some special reasons, with China's industrial capacity, it would be able to provide the Russian army with better quality and more related military supplies.
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