The women of the battalion are trained to infiltrate the local community, to attack people and units who oppose the Iranian presence in Syria, while continuing to destabilize an already broken society, by distributing and promoting drugs, recruiting more men into Iranian militias and promoting propaganda for Iran among families and the local community.

What seems like an unbelievable Hollywood story is, unfortunately, a terrifying reality. 

The Iranian leadership and its militias seduce women and then threaten and terrorize them with the intention of forcing them to take on these roles. They are also pressured through the threat of destroying their "good name" and their lives to perform dirty tasks, so that they gradually become powerless and without hope or choice but to continue their work as servants of the Iranian regime.

The battalion headquarters is located in the urban villas in Deir ez-Zor. Baladi News received an exclusive video of the headquarters from the outside. In the video section you can see the front that does not draw attention to this secret unit.

The battalion was established in close coordination with the intelligence of the Assad regime, when the Revolutionary Guards assigned an Iraqi woman named "Manar" to establish the Al-Zahraa Battalion, and she is an expert in seduction and espionage.

"Manar" works in cooperation with a Syrian woman named "Salma Jadiba", who is believed to be from the rural area of the city of Jebel, as well as with the Iraqi wife of Firas (national security commander in Deir ez-Zor), also called "Manar". 

She was appointed as a local official in the city of Deir ez-Zor. Recently, a Syrian girl from the town of Mahradah, named Aliya, joined the regiment. She formed a special group within the battalion. A battalion called the "Lioness" group. Her roles are still unknown, but all the members of her group came from outside the Deir ez-Zor province.

Recruiting through exploitation

The four women lead a group of about 150 women, among them Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi, and the tasks of each company vary according to age, physical appearance, experience and skills.

The Baladi News agency learned from someone close to the battalion that among the 150 women, there are about 39 local women from Deir ez-Zor, who were recruited to travel for the Iranians.

The tactic used is to attract women with job offers in the humanitarian field while taking advantage of their desire to help others and earn money for their families. As part of this "humanitarian" work, they are later assigned small "security missions" for which they are financially rewarded.

Over time, they are encouraged to take security risks and gain a reputation, and are encouraged with greater financial rewards, while other women are lured with drugs, either by exploiting an existing addiction, or by being involved in the addiction by their friends, who work in the regiment, and soon they trapped and blackmailed by the threat of a social scandal, they are then blackmailed by the commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and find themselves trapped in a trap with no escape but to continue on the same path.

Baladi News has learned that another tactic is being used, which is to obtain documents and secretly recorded videos of some women and girls, after they are involved in the practice of a type of prostitution, called white marriage, or temporary marriage, where the girl is given to one of the foreign fighters with a "temporary marriage" contract, it continued a few days in exchange for a sum of money.

One of the news site's sources gave a horrifying example of one of these girls. She married five men in one month in this manner, leading to pregnancy by one of them. Under the influence of the fear of scandal and the psychological breakdown caused by drugs she started taking, the girl committed suicide by hanging.

Our sources indicated that this is not the only case of suicide, as the threat of arrest and murder from which more than one girl suffered led to a complete mental breakdown, which is often aggravated by the heavy use of drugs, which ultimately leads to suicide to escape pressure and the fear of scandals.