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Sazman-i Nasr ( fa, سازمان نصر, lit=Organization of Victory) was a Hazara militant group, opposed to the leftist Afghan government during the 1980s. After the
Revolutionary Council of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan The Revolutionary Council of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan ( fa, شوراء انقلاب اتفاق اسلامی افغانستان, Shura-i Engelab-i Ettefaq-i Islami Afghanistan, often called simply Shura) was a Hazara political movement which ap ...
, Al-Nasr was the elite militant group. The organisation included many young men educated in Kabul, including Shia clergymen, and received support from the
Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...
government. It was a part of the
Tehran Eight The Tehran EightRuttig, T. ''Islamists, Leftists – and a Void in the Center. Afghanistan's Political Parties and where they come from (1902–2006)''. "The first current was mainly represented in the 1980s by the Sunni Mujahedin tanzim based i ...
political constellation after 1987.


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{{Reflist Nasr Rebel groups in Afghanistan Shia Islamist groups