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Iran Guards recruit children to ‘defend the homeland’, placing them in line of fire

|Iran, Iran|1 independent sources

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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.

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