The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

To avoid accountability | Dozens of young men join Iranian militias in Hama countryside

Hama province: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists have reported that the Iranian militias are exploiting the people’s conditions in the northern countryside of Hama to recruit them into their ranks.
According to SOHR sources, families of the northern countryside of Hama returned to their villages after the withdrawal of the factions from them, as regime forces regained full control of the area, while the Military Intelligence services in Mihrada region declared their responsibility for all agricultural land and properties, which made an opportunity for the Iranian militia to enter those villages and recruit young men in their favor.
Moreover, in the village of Latmin, dozens of young men joined Iranian militias in exchange for protecting their properties and money.

It is worth noting that the region witnesses an ongoing conflict between regime forces in the region and the pro-Iran militia, over the pistachio trees that northern countryside of Hama is famous for, where the conflict coincides with the approach of harvest season, as disagreement occur over the share of these militias if the crop.

On the other hand, young men have joined the Iranian militias to avoid legal accountability, and to seek security, relief and military support.