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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Radical fanatics
are to sign up for suicide operations in central Tehran on Friday, which
marks the end of the month of Ramadan, Mehr News
Agency, which is run by the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announced on Thursday.
Mohammad-Ali Samadi, the spokesman for the
“Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Muslim Front”, was
quoted by the news agency as saying that already 40,000 volunteers for
suicide bombing operations have already enlisted to attack targets on the
orders of Ayatollah Khamenei.
He said application forms for suicide volunteers to sign up would be
distributed at the Imam Khomeini Mausoleum in Tehran on the sidelines of the prayers
ceremony marking the end of Ramadan.
Samadi said that the registration process was
originally planned for Sunday, but was shifted to be on Eid
al-Fetr, the holiest day in Islam. Iran will be
marking the occasion on Friday.
The group’s organisers previously said that their
targets were three-fold; U.S.-led forces in Iraq,
Jews in Israel,
and Salman Rushdie, who still has a fatwa against
his head issue by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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