Iran's Islamic Students Society invited Bolivian President Juan Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran to attend the feast of victory of the Palestinian resistance, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.

In separate letters sent to Bolivian and Venezuelan presidents, the society invited them to attend the feast which is to be held in Tehran.

"The feast will be hosted by Tehran University celebrating the victory of the resistance of the people of Gaza during the Zionist regime's savage attacks on the Gaza Strip", IRNA said.

Venezuela and Bolivia cut diplomatic ties with Israel to protest Israeli deadly raid on Gaza which left around 1,245 Palestinians killed and more than 5,300 wounded, almost half of them were civilians, women and children.

The letter hailed Caracas and La Paz support of Palestinians and said "the coming generations would proudly remember your courageous act."

Iranian hard-line university students, since the erupt of Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27, have urgently sought the Iranian officials' permission to be deployed to Gaza to fight by the side of Palestinians.

To implement this, they had adopted divers means, including taking sanctuary in Teheran's old Mehrabad airport, staging consecutive rallies and resorting to students' opinions by signing up the list for martyrdom operations.

On Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared a unilateral ceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which went into effect at 2:00 a.m. (0000 GMT) Sunday.

Source:Xinhua