Iran Sent Them to Syria. Now Afghan Fighters Are a Worry at Home.<br />Iran said that There was always talk about that; the commander would say that one day you will go defend in your own country,<br />Fatemiyoun said that Here, I am scared — of the government, of Daesh,<br />And one Fatemiyoun fighter who returned about three months ago from Syria said the violence against Afghan<br />Shiites was a frequent topic raised by their commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.<br />Rahmatullah Nabil said that This is quite dangerous: What happens to this Fatemiyoun force when the war in Syria is over?<br />What those fighters might do when they come home is now very much on the minds of officials who fear<br />that Afghanistan may become the next great sectarian battleground between Iran, as the declared guardian of Shiites, and Saudi Arabia, long the sponsor of conservative Sunni doctrine around the world.<br />Not only did Iran send smaller units of the Fatemiyoun to cross Syrian borders and fight in Yemen,<br />but at least 1,000 Sunni Afghan refugees from camps in Pakistan have also been recruited to fight on Saudi Arabia’s behalf in Yemen, according to three senior Afghan officials.
