To enlist Iran's youth, Islamic Republic adds a nationalist pitch
Glorified religious sacrifice, a staple of the regime's efforts to secure its citizens' support, is giving way to an updated appeal to Iran's youth./ Wearing a white suit in a dark, cavernous room, the bearded singer walks past row after row of flag-draped coffins representing martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War./ “With a drop of your blood, my country is revived,” he sings in a video that has been widely shared since its release in September. Glorified religious sacrifice – martyrdom – has been a familiar theme employed by Iran’s ideological ...
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