Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that “14 million Iranians have registered to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran.”
“I too have been, am, and will remain devoted to giving my life for Iran,” he said in a post on social media platform X.
Since the war began on February 28, Israel has carried out multiple assassinations of Iranian leadership, such as that of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. According to Al Jazeera, at least 2,076 people have been killed in Iran and 26,500 wounded.