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Googling isn't necessarily helpful and you need to make sure your S-2 shop is on the ball. Arabic has lots of dialects, many of which are not mutually intelligible, so googling "common Arabic phrases" can be misleading. You need to make sure your 2 shop gets Iraqi Arabic dialects.
For Iran and Afghanistan, Arabic are less useful. Arabic is a native language of only a minority of Iranians and is not a native language of Afghanistan. For Iran, Persian is the national language and lingua franca.
A Persian dialect, commonly called Dari, is a national language and the lingua franca of Afghanistan. It has many dialects, but there is a national "standard" based on the Kabul dialect.
Pashto is the other national language of Afghanistanand the main language of the Pushtuns, although it too has many dialects. You need to make sure your S-2 shop has material in the Afghan dialects; a lot of the publicly available materials are in the Pakistani dialects.
Kurdish is the other important one for the region, depending upon the particular AO. There are two major dialects spoken in Iraq, stretching into Turkey and Iran.
There are a lot of other lesser languages in the region, such as Azeri Turkish in northern Iran and Baluchi in southern Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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