Ahmadinejad's media advisor, Mehdi Kalhar, said to Iranian students protesting at Mehrabad Airport that "Iran must take action... Gaza has 45 kilometers of coast, so we must send them aid [in the form of] boatloads of [fighters] on a one-way ticket... An Israeli attack on the boats is nothing to be afraid of – for how else are we to become martyrs?"
Kalhar added that he had asked Ahmadinejad: "On the eve of the Ashura, why are we not in Gaza?"
Source: Fars, Iran, January 4, 2009
