I watched this story on Discovery last night. The Iranians have back packs for kids with this guys picture on them. He is glorified for the population to follow the lead. They also stated the Iran has been conducting a secret war against the U.S. since "79" using these suicide bombers in the names of Iran, Humas, and Hezbulla.

http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CACDF.htm
The first film starts with the fascinating story of the very brief life of Hossein Fahmideh, which will be new to most viewers. He was only 13 when, in 1980, as Iraqi forces were advancing in southern Iran, he threw himself under an Iraqi tank and blew up himself and the tank's occupants. He was the first suicide bomber and is now a hero in Iran. In tonight's film Baer visits a graveyard of martyrs - 'it's like a city of the dead', he says - where hundreds of those who martyred themselves in the cause of Ayatollah Khomeini's Holy War against the invading Ba'athist infidels are buried.