How do you know? Do you have links for that information? And if true they’d be regular murders brought in, not mercenaries.

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Jabrov 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In the article it says

“ While most of the killings were carried out by IRGC and Basij forces, reports received by Iran International indicate that proxy forces from Iraq and Syria were also used in the crackdown. The deployment of non-local forces suggests a decision to expand repression capacity as quickly as possible.”

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sshine 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Mercenaries are murderers for hire.

Also, read the article. :)

	▲	bawolff 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think the point is that its believed they were foreigners who were part of iranian proxy forces (e.g. iranian backed militias in iraq), so weren't doing it for money but out of some sort of loyalty to the iranian regime or ideology. Usually mercenaries mean people doing it for money not ideology who get paid significantly more than your average soldier.