Richard Michael Blaberhttps://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260403-iran-guards-recruit-children-defend-homeland-irgc-basij. This is a #warcrime, see Article 8(2)(b)(xxvi) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf.
Iran Guards recruit children to ‘defend the homeland’, placing them in line of fire
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps has launched a campaign aimed at recruiting children as young as 12 for the “defence of the homeland”. More than a month into the war triggered by the US and Israel, rights groups highlight the life-threatening risks for Iranian children and stress that the use of minors in the military constitutes a war crime.