{"id":26448,"date":"2026-03-27T14:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26448"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:07:38","slug":"iran-sparks-international-outrage-turns-12-year-olds-into-expendable-tools-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/iran-sparks-international-outrage-turns-12-year-olds-into-expendable-tools-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Sparks International Outrage, Turns 12-Year-Olds into Expendable Tools Of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In a move that has sparked international condemnation and revived memories of some of the darkest chapters of the Iran-Iraq War, the Iranian government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202603265637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0Thursday that it has officially lowered the minimum age for military support roles to just 12 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Speaking on state television, Rahim Nadali, a cultural official with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/middle-east\/2026\/03\/26\/iran-recruits-children-as-young-as-12-for-checkpoints-in-tehran#:~:text=%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.-,%E2%80%9CConsidering%20the%20ages%20of%20those%20requesting%20to%20join%2C%20we%20have,the%20United%20States%20and%20Israel.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a>\u00a0that the new \u201cFor Iran\u201d recruitment drive aims to mobilize children to assist security forces against what he termed \u201cthe global bully.\u201d Nadali justified the decision by claiming a \u201chigh number\u201d of young volunteers were eager to serve. These recruits, some as young as 12 and 13, are reportedly being tasked with operational patrols, manning checkpoints, and gathering security data.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/iran-sparks-international-outrage-turns-12-year-olds-into-expendable-tools-of-war?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=24&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Iran+Sparks+International+Outrage%2C+Turns+12-Year-Olds+into+Expendable+Tools+Of+War\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that has sparked international condemnation and revived memories of some of the darkest chapters of the Iran-Iraq War, the Iranian government\u00a0announced\u00a0Thursday that it has officially lowered the minimum age for military support roles to just 12 years old. Speaking on state television, Rahim Nadali, a cultural official with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/iran-sparks-international-outrage-turns-12-year-olds-into-expendable-tools-of-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran Sparks International Outrage, Turns 12-Year-Olds into Expendable Tools Of War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6SA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26449,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions\/26449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}