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-Analysis- Iran places great importance on ordinary citizens’ willingness to die for their religion. Yet, following Israel’s bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria on April 1, the regime that touts martyrdom has been reluctant to respond. If it doesn’t respond, or does so feebly, it will undermine a major political pillar of the Islamic Republic. A theme of the regime since it took power in 1979, this culture of martyrdom has its origins in the unjust killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Husayn in the 7th century. Shia clerics tell congregations that the objective of martyrdom is to has…