Iran and Russia, which have close cooperation in Syria, Ukraine and many other areas, are similar in terms of organizing and employing thugs.

The head of the private company “Wagner”, which hires mercenaries for foreign wars on behalf of the Russian government, has announced the amnesty of more than five thousand prisoners after participating in the Ukraine war.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner’s military mercenary group, who has been criticized for using prisoners as “cannon fodder” in the war in Ukraine, released a video on Saturday, March 25, and said that more than five thousand prisoners of war with this company They signed a contract and went to war in Ukraine. After the contract was completed, they were pardoned and released.

Originally composed of veterans of the Russian armed forces, Wagner played a very prominent role in the Ukraine war.

According to Reuters, Perzygozhin then stepped out of the shadows and recruited thousands of prisoners, giving them the chance to be freed after serving in the war.

According to this report, Prigozhin, who is sometimes called “Putin’s cook”, has become one of the most powerful allies of the Russian president.

Western governments and institutions have repeatedly accused this group of committing war crimes and violating human rights.

Iranian version of Wagner

But in Iran, the history of using thugs and thugs in the military forces goes back to the first years of the 1979 revolution, the use of these people in the committees that were later renamed to the Revolutionary Guards, a paramilitary army whose duty was to defend the Islamic revolution.

But in the following years, especially since 2009 and the protests against the results of the presidential elections, thugs and mobs served Iran’s repression machine in a more organized manner.

Hossein Hamdani, the commander of the Tehran Revolutionary Guards Corps in 2009, who was killed in Syria on October 8, 2015, admitted in his last interview with “Joan Hamedan” magazine that how 5 thousand thugs and thugs in the form of three battalions to suppress the protests of 2009 (Green Movement) ) has organized.

Hossein Hamdani said in this interview: “We identified 5,000 people who were present in the riots, but were not in political parties and movements, but were criminals and thugs, and we controlled them at their homes. The day they called, they were controlled and They were not allowed to go out of the house. Then I made them members. Later, these three battalions showed that if we want to train Mujahid, we should hire such people who deal with blades and machetes. One of them was a person named Sattari. This When Sattari attacked the crowd, he became a 70% veteran and was martyred last year as well.”

He also said that in the 2009 Ashura protest march, the same three gangs of thugs ended the protests

After the beginning of the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war, many of these thugs and thugs were sent to this country under the title of defender of the holy shrine.

Later, in suppressing the protests of 2017 and 2019 inside Iran, they assumed the main role of suppression.

After the beginning of the women, life, freedom movement, the repression machine of the Islamic Republic of Iran once again took charge of these thugs, hundreds of protestors were killed and tortured by these people.

Many believe that the main body of the paramilitary group Nakhsa (Spontaneous Forces of Islamic Lands) consists of thugs and thugs.

The force which, along with Hashd Shaabi, Fazimiun and Zainbiun, has the experience of war in Iraq and Syria and committed countless crimes during the recent protests in Iran.

Reports of the presence of Nakhsa forces were published in the cities of Sanandaj, Javanroud and Bukan. This group brutally shoots the protesters and its shooters are responsible for killing many protesters.