(Ready yourself for the press to claim this is evidence of some kind of fundamentalist fervor propaganda or an AI fabrication designed to give Americans pause during negotiations. While either or both of those things can be at least partially true the reality is, it isn't hard to get people to stand up and defend their nation when they are being illegally attacked for no reason by a genocidal freak (Netanyahu) and his nut-job pedophile flunkie sidekick (TrumpyBear) For the record I believe every word of it regardless of why Iranians sign up the point is this is and will be a quagmire unlike any we have engaged in in the past. You will never cow these people with shock and awe, all you will do is make more fighters, more resistance, more hardliners willing to do whatever it takes, fight whatever kind of war it takes to drive us out of their nation. It is stupid for Fox News to platform people like the Shah's son. The people of Iran will never go back to living under another Shah, him or anyone else (MEK?) and that's a fact. They are much more like the people of Afghanistan than the people of Iraq. So yes, trust these numbers. No matter how they got there, they are ready and waiting... and we shouldn't invade if indeed we love the troops.)
from PressTV
Arash Sadeghi signed up late in the evening a few weeks ago
for the nationwide campaign to defend the country, hunched over his
laptop in his family apartment in Tehran.
The 21-year-old had been following the news all day, watching messages from friends and acquaintances pour in one after another.
By the time he reached the registration page for the "Sacrifice for
Iran" (Janfada-e-Iran) campaign, he already knew what he had to do.
“There was no need to discuss it or think about it or seek anyone’s
advice,” he told the Press TV website. “Everyone around me had already
done it, and it was the right thing to do.”
He typed in his details and pressed submit. His phone kept lighting
up with notifications – classmates from university, cousins from the
city of Karaj, neighbors his age – all confirming that they, too, had
joined the massively popular campaign.
“All my friends have enrolled for the campaign,” the fine arts
student said, repeating it as he scrolled through his messages. “We are
ready to give our lives for Iran if need arises.”
He said it plainly, almost as if describing a daily responsibility
rather than a life-and-death choice. “Everyone I know sees it the same
way. It’s not something we had to debate.”
Across the apartment, his mother asked if he had finished. Sadeghi
nodded. His mother didn’t question it. According to Sadeghi, most
parents in his neighbourhood already knew their sons and daughters were
registering.
“It’s normal now,” he said in a freewheeling conversation with the
Press TV website. “People talk about it like they talk about exams or
work. It’s just something you do.”...
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