The director of the Public Relations of Iran’s Students’ Basij (Volunteer) Organization Esmaeel Ahmadi said here on Monday that over 70,000 students had signed up for martyrdom operations, the official IRNA news agency reported. “More than 70,000 students from universities throughout Iran have signed up on the list to conduct Esteshhadi (martyrdom seeking) operations (against Israeli troops in Gaza),” Ahmadi said. “The students will act as part of Esteshhadi battalions,” he added. Iranian hard-line university students, since the erupt of Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza, have urgently sought the Iranian officials’ permission to be deployed to Gaza to fight by the side of Palestinians.
