Mahalaxmi Ramanathan
Mahalaxmi Ramanathan

@MahalaxmiRaman

4 Tweets 10 reads Oct 19, 2023
— 🇮🇷/🇵🇸 NEW: The #Iranian SMS campaign #حريفت_منم ('I am your opponent') has reached 4.7 million registrations
Almost 5 million young #Iranians volunteered for the #Basij, a #paramilitary branch of the #IRGC, after receiving an SMS asking if they would serve for #Palestine.
In 2011, millions of Iranian youths similarly volunteered to serve in #Syria to fight against #ISIS.
A few thousand of those volunteers were interviewed, selected and trained over a period of months, after which they were eventually sent to #Syria.
For now the campaign remains largely symbolic, but in the very unlikely case of a wide scale war, several thousands of Iranians could be called up to volunteer in the fight for Palestine.

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