Making of a 'martyr': Why would a young Iranian fight and die in Syria?
Almost a year ago, a 20-year-old Iranian's quest for martyrdom was realized in Syria, in battle with the so-called Islamic State. Today Iran trumpets his sacrifice as proof of passing the ideological torch to a new generation./ Ali Dehghan-Amiri and Fatemeh Toosi stand beside banners and portraits of their son, Mohammad-Reza Dehghan-Amiri, who volunteered to fight and was killed in Syria last November, aged 20, in their home in Tehran on Sept. 14./ The day Fatemeh Toosi saw her son off to the Syrian war, on a quest for martyrdom, she did ...
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