Alaudinov called for help for Iran

Iran needs help in every possible way, said Apti Alaudinov, head of the Akhmat special forces, and expressed his readiness to travel to Iran if the Russian leadership makes such a decision.

Akmat special forces head Apti Alaudinov called for support for Iran in every possible way. The general recalled that the United States and other NATO countries have been supplying Ukraine with weapons for combat against Russian troops for four years.

"We must give Iran everything we can give, support it in any way we can," Alaudinov said on his Telegram channel, noting that NATO countries, including the United States, are supplying Ukraine with weapons for the war with Russia.

The general noted that if the Russian leadership makes such a decision, he is ready to "go" to Iran "even today" to help its allies repel the ground advance of American troops.

According to Alaudinov, there is a 99% chance that US President Donald Trump is the "antichrist." "If they manage to finish off Iran now, we are guaranteed to be after Iran," he stated.

Alaudinov previously called for mobilization amid the strikes on Iran

It is necessary to mobilize and train at least 500,000, and preferably a million people, stated Apti Alaudinov, head of the Akhmat special forces, on June 13, 2025, following the initial Israeli strikes on Iran. Military actions between Israel and Iran are not legally grounds for declaring mobilization in Russia, but the authorities could declare it if necessary in connection with the military operation in Ukraine, analysts noted, commenting on Alaudinov’s calls to mobilize at least 500,000 people.

Alaudinov’s calls for mobilization are absurd, and if it is so necessary, it should start with the families of the Chechen leadership and the authorities, social media users said.

Let us recall that the deputy chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department for Apologetic Mission of the Russian Orthodox Church, Sergiy Fufayev, pointed out that in the book by Apti Alaudinov, "The Army of Jesus in the Battle against the Army "Dajjal-Antichrist" mixes Christian and Islamic ideas, distorting the foundations of the Orthodox faith and leading to heresy. Alaudinov countered that the book is about the joint struggle of Muslims and Christians, and its ideas are presented from an Islamic perspective, but adapted for fighters who consider themselves Orthodox. He emphasized that the book's co-author was the imam of Akhmat, Magomed Khitanaev.

As a reminder, in the Akhmat special forces, which initially consisted only of Chechens, they now make up only 25% of the personnel; 50% of the fighters are Russian, and the rest are of other nationalities, said Apti Alaudinov, explaining the appearance of the Orthodox cross on the unit's flag. The Orthodox cross on the flag of the Akhmat special forces unit clashed with Russia's declared secularism, but it demonstrated the unit's true state of affairs and loyalty to the country's leadership, analysts say.