Iran Focus
Mohammad-Ali Samadi, spokesman for the Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a government-orchestrated campaign to recruit suicide bombers, told the state-run news agency Mehr on Tuesday that the group planned to officially announce the existence of the new garrison in a ceremony in Tehrans largest cemetery on Thursday afternoon.
The new garrison will be named after Nader Mahdavi, an IRGC naval commander who died in a suicide attack on an American naval vessel in 1987, Samadi said.
The report said that more that 55,000 volunteers for martyrdom-seeking operations had been registered so far by the organisation, which also calls itself Esteshhadioun, or martyrdom-seekers.
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 Irans 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.
