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Syria, the strategy of the pro-Iranian militias: buying luxury homes and land on the border with Lebanon

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Pro-Iranian foreign militias are expanding their presence on the Syrian-Lebanese border, led by Hezbollah, confiscating luxury apartments and buying land. Popular anger is growing.

A decade after the conflict began, Iranian-backed militias control the outskirts of Damascus and patrol strategic cities on the border between Syria and Lebanon. They are present in large numbers in southern Syria near Israel. But it is not only through weapons that the Islamic Republic has secured its span of influence from Tehran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon. In fact, the Iranian policy of expansion through the purchase of land seems to become the strategy of the future.

The catastrophic economic situation in the Syrian provinces is allowing Iranian-backed militias to stock up on high-priced real estate. The difficult living conditions, the lack of job opportunities and astronomically inflated prices do not allow the Syrians living on the border with Lebanon to be valid competitors. The economic overwhelming power of militias funded by the Tehran government could soon create a buffer region between Syria and Lebanon devoid of Syrian inhabitants.

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by our correspondent Pietro Del Re


The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Sohr), through testimonies, speaks of an important Iranian expansion into Syrian territory, where Arab and foreign militias loyal to the Rouhani government have established themselves near the Syrian-Lebanese border under the supervision of the Lebanese Hezbollah , despite Syrian laws prohibiting the sale or purchase of plots of land in border areas.

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Sources in Sohr said Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan militias recently confiscated luxury apartments in the Bludan area and other nearby areas, turning them into housing for them and their families, and bought more than 165 plots of land in the area. of Al-Zabadani and at least 250 plots in the Al-Tufayl border area, transforming the region into an “independent” village close to the Lebanese forces of Hezbollah.

These border areas in the hands of the militias of the Islamic Republic have sparked popular anger throughout Syria, especially in light of the country’s economic difficulties. Civilian discontent is easy to find on social media as Sohr reports. “We can’t find food, where we get the money from. How can we pay these huge sums of money for houses and shops. Our real estate is no longer in the hands of Syrians and in the future there will probably no longer be a country called Syria.”

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