With all the goings on in Lebanon with Hezbollah and the politics around Iran at the moment, I thought it would be interesting to put up a memorial a student of mine found in Tehran. It is a memorial to the suicide bombings in Beirut in 1983, but it isn't for the Marines and French rangers. It is for the bombers! You can find a larger version of it and more pictures from the same cemetery at the Behesht Zara cemetery page at "Sites of Memory".

Since the memorial text is in English, it is obviously intended for world-wide consumption. It might mean defiance and provocation, but the wording amounts to a admission that the Islamic Republic advocates the use of suicide bombings. The attack on the U.S. embassy is not mentioned, however, only the two barracks attacks, so here at least they are only glorifying attacks on military targets.