Working for Iranian-backed militias and Hez*bollah | Syrian individuals purchase real estate in Rif Dimashq and smuggle illicit dr*ugs to Iraq

Iran continues its attempts to entrench its presence in Syria and change the demography of several areas under symbolic regime domination, with the help of Syrian individuals affiliated with Iranian-backed militias.

 

In this context, SOHR sources have reported that individuals from Deir Ezzor and now living in Damascus and Rif Dimashq continue purchasing real estate units in Qudsaya and Ma’raba in Rif Dimashq for the favour of Iranian-backed militias.

 

According to SOHR sources, a group of people from Al-Mayadeen and Al-Bokamal in east Deir Ezzor countryside are responsible for those purchases, and they also transport illicit pills from the Syria-Lebanon border to the Syria-Iraq border for the favour of the Lebanese Hezbollah.

 

Those individuals proceed with their illegal business under the cover of trading in vegetables, fruit and food stuffs. Before the spark of the Syrian Revolution, those individuals were vegetable and fruit merchants, before they expanded their business with the beginning of ISIS control of the region. Accordingly, they became businessmen and later worked for Iranian-backed militias, after the Iranians imposed their predominance on Deir Ezzor.

 

Recently, those Syrian individuals have warehouses for storing foodstuffs in Rif Dimashq and transport vegetable and fruit by refrigerated truck and foodstuffs by trucks to Deir Ezzor and Iraq on a daily basis. However, those trucks are used as a cover for transporting illicit pills to Deir Ezzor and Iraq for the favour of the Lebanese Hezbollah.

 

We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), renew our appeal to expel the Iranian forces and militias from Syria without risking the safety and lives of civilians or damaging Syria’s public properties and facilities.