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Iran Focus
 Tehran,
Iran, May 26 – More than 100 radical Islamists affiliated to Iran’s Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) gathered on Thursday in Tehran’s most
famous cemetery vowing to blow themselves up in suicide attacks to kill
Americans, Britons, and Israelis.
The “martyrdom-seeking volunteers”, most of whom had covered their faces
with a chafieh, issued a warning to Washington that they would blow up United States interests around the world if Iran’s
nuclear installations came under attack.
Mohammad-Ali Samadi, spokesman for the
Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a
government-orchestrated campaign to recruit suicide bombers, repeated a
claim made earlier in the week that more than 55,000 “volunteers for
martyrdom-seeking operations” had been registered so far by the organisation, which also calls itself “Estesh’hadioun”, or martyrdom-seekers.
A huge banner was displayed at the event, depicting the coffins of American
and British troops in Iraq.
In February, the group launched a new recruitment drive for suicide bombers
in Tehran
to fight against “Global Blasphemy”.
The group was set up by Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards in 2004. Those who join have three choices: To carry
out suicide attacks against “the infidels occupying
Iraq”, against Israel, or
against Salman Rushdie.
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