The similarities of Mohammad Rigi, the 14-year-old suicide-bomber of the Zahedan terrorist attack, and Hossein Fahmideh, the iconic child-hero of the Iran-Iraq war, are striking. Can we dismiss Rigi as a brain-washed terrorist but praise Fahmideh as a hero? What is heroism and who defines is? Aren’t these two kids both victims of two different violence-seeking political systems?

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