US EditionIran recruits children as young as 12 for military support roles: Report
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps lowered the recruitment age to 12 amid ongoing war, enlisting children for patrols and checkpoints in Tehran, officials said.
- On Thursday, Iranian officials announced the minimum age for war-related support roles has been lowered to 12. The initiative, dubbed 'For Iran,' recruits youth to assist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij militia with checkpoints and patrols.
- Tehran authorities launched the recruitment drive amid ongoing conflict with the United States and Israel. Officials claimed teenagers requested participation, though reports suggest a shortage of willing adult volunteers for frontline militia duties.
- Throughout Tehran, residents reported armed youths manning checkpoints with Uzis or Kalashnikovs. Untrained teenagers seal off areas just 100 meters away after missile strikes, shouting orders at civilians and firing warning shots into the air.
- Recruiting children for military activities violates commitments under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Critics likened the strategy to Berlin's final defense, calling it despicable and a sign Iran is running low on willing adult fighters.
- The recruitment push follows the death of IRGC Navy Commander Alireza Tangsiri and mounting military losses. CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper reported 92 percent of the Iranian navy's large ships have been destroyed and face 'irreversible decline.
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Iran wants to recruit twelve-year-olds for civilian defense, which is a continuation of the Iran-Iraq war. At that time, teenagers were heated up as cannon fodder.
Iranian security forces are recruiting children as young as 12 years old to operate checkpoints and perform other tasks during the war in the capital, according to an officer of the Revolutionary Guard on state television on Thursday.Since the beginning of the war, checkpoints have proliferated in Tehran, and residents report that teenagers dressed in civilian clothes, armed with machine guns, guard them.The Iranian authorities have launched a r…
Patrols were strengthened and controls extended in the capital city of Tehran.
Trump gave Iran 10 days to negotiate a peace agreement and declared that it would "implore" to end the war. Israel killed leaders of the regime that would be involved in the Ormuz blockade.
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