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Iran: Military Stepping Up Child Recruitment

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Iranian security forces stand guard on top of an armored vehicle in Tehran on March 21, 2026. © 2026 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is conducting a campaign to recruit children as young as 12 to volunteer to become “homeland defending combatants,” Human Rights Watch said today. The military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when the children are under 15.On March 26, 2026, an official from the IRGC’s 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division in Tehran said that…

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