TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would attend Gaza victory feast to be held by Iran's university students, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday.

    "Students nationwide will participate in a big celebration at Tehran University (on Tuesday), to be attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to celebrate victory of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) over the Zionist regime in Gaza", the report said.

    In the meantime, the head of the Public Relations Department of Student Basij (Volunteer) Organization Esmail Ahmadi told a press conference that the celebration will be held "to praise victory of resistance in Palestine and outline different aspects of the Zionist regime's humiliating defeat," IRNA said.

    On Sunday, 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.

    In separate letters sent to Bolivian and Venezuelan presidents, the society invited them to attend the feast which was 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.

    Iranian hard-line university students, since the eruption 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.

    On Monday, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israeli truce a "victory" for Gazans and congratulated Hamas political bureau chief Khalid Mashaal on "the victory of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza."

    After three weeks of an unprecedented Israeli air and ground offensive on Gaza, over 1,300 Palestinians were killed and some 5,500 others wounded.