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Iran’s security forces are recruiting children as young as 12 to man checkpoints and perform other duties during the war in the capital Tehran, an Iranian military official told state TV yesterday.
Checkpoints have sprung up all around Tehran since the start of the war, with residents reporting teenagers in plainclothes manning some of them with machine guns.
Iranian authorities have launched a recruitment drive dubbed ‘For Iran’ in Tehran to register people to join the security forces, lowering the minimum age of recruits to 12.
An official with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran, told state television that people as young as 12 could register to help the IRGC and the Basij youth volunteer militia stand ‘against the global bully’, a term used for the US.
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