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"I thank the pious and devoted youth who have asked to go to Gaza ... but it must be noted that our hands are tight in this arena," Khamenei said on state television. He did not elaborate about what efforts Iran would take to help Hamas in other ways.
The student groups claim that more than 70,000 people throughout Iran have registered as volunteer suicide bombers since Israel launched Operation Cast Lead.
...why wouldn't they just volunteer to become an army, rather than specifically suicide bombers??
Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
...why wouldn't they just volunteer to become an army, rather than specifically suicide bombers??
...why wouldn't they just volunteer to become an army, rather than specifically suicide bombers??
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by The Last Man on Earth
...why wouldn't they just volunteer to become an army, rather than specifically suicide bombers??
It's not even the lack of Tanks, Fighter Jets, or serious small arms that make that impossible, but the lack of transport.
How do you get 70,000 people from point a to point b, when point b is a heavily defended border to boot? It's a logistical transport capability that makes a military even more formidable than it's fire power. If you can't get them there in mass, close to all at once, and securely, you could have a million people willing to fight and it would do them no good.