IRGC lowers recruitment age down to 12 years old, inviting civilians to join the war effort

In our school books these child martyrs were depicted as role models and heroes

Gave them "tickets to heaven" and had them hold hands as they walked across mine fields.

Yep. Here’s a Wikipedia article about Hossain Fahmideh, a 13 year old boy who did just that. There are murals of him in Iran as the Islamic Republic glorifies his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Hossein_Fahmideh

This regime is the definition of evil

Not the first time they used child soldiers in war.

Well they are extremist

I'm 40 and recruiters are calling me. Breh, my knees can barely survive a stepstool.

Well, they did massacre massive numbers of young people earlier this year. 

It would be used as propaganda. If you had 6 child soldiers hit amongst 6 adult soldiers, it wont be 12 soldiers killed. It will be 6 soldiers and 6 children killed.

Listnook thinks a kinda damaged F-35 means the US has been routed

Not even sure what those 12 year olds will do. Meatshields for Kharg Island? Drone pilots? I guess that's better than the last time (expendable mine-finding kids).

Yeah, didn't think it was THIS bad. I guess Iran is closer to defeat than we thought.

Careful, you’re straying dangerously far from orange man bad message. We can’t have opinions about others also sucking without throwing that in there.

Well, one month of enemy fighter jets patrolling your sky and combing the targets of their choice means a serious blow to your military capacity. Recruiting children is helpful because after an airstrike dead children are going to be a great story. Getting killed their only use against enemy aircraft. For your reference: Iraqi army in Kuwait was pretty much useless after 38 days of continous bombing. Iran might need longer because of it's larger size and much bigger buildup. Plus, any invasion is considered high risk (for very good reasons).

endsieg for iran

They want Israel to bomb them for PR

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And 90 year old billionaire ayatollahs. Often with child wives. 

I saw an article stating that there’s been an influx of child sexual abuse in Gaza due to the Israel conflict. I don’t know how war would make you exploit children, but I digress.

They want child combatants to be killed by US strikes so they can plaster that all over social media.

The Geneva convention is a gentleman's agreement. We've seen thousands of violations over the years. Nothing comes from it.

More like Geneva suggestions at this point

Sadly, only if they are being recruited for hostilities. The Geneva Conventions allows (or rather doesn't specifically forbid) recruitment (non-compulsory) in non-combat support roles all the way down to age 12. It would likely be considered a war crime under the [Rome Statute](https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1196&context=clrj) if charges were brought under the auspices of the ICC.

And in case anyone else is wondering: https://www.un.org/en/ga/sixth/77/protocols/iran_e.pdf >• The Islamic Republic of Iran joined the 1949 Geneva Conventions (GC) in 1949. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a signatory, but not a party, to Additional Protocol I, II and III. Efforts are undertaken in order to exhaust the internal procedures to ratify those instruments within the domestic legislative authorities. >• The Islamic Republic oflran is a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954) as well as the First and Second Protocol to that Convention (1954); the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (1972); the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (1993) as well as several international conventions prohibiting or restricting the development, stockpiling or use of various weapons, among other multilateral treaties.

Yup. Thought maybe it was bot farms but I saw the NYC video glorifying Khamenei and realized some of these people actually exist. F*** Trump and f*** Iranian leadership as well.

I’ve literally seen upvoted comments calling for Europe to ally with Iran. It’s insane. Because they don’t have an English speaking orange saying something stupid every 5 minutes a lot of people genuinely think they’re the good guys.

I need to unsub from subs like white people twitter. You could say "child slavery is great, and trump is bad" and that post would get 8k updoots. It's mind blowing to see so so many western people get caught up in this silly anti-west ideology while progressives in MENA want to westernise their countries...

Iran would march livestock into minefields to clear them out during the Iran/Iraq war i. the 80s... unfortunately the livestock would panic and run away, so their solution was to recruit young boys to run through the fields instead, they would give them a key made out of tin to represent the key to Muslim heaven with 72 virgins and all... it worked

Hamas used child soldiers too but the radical left in America/listnook isn't ready to hear that.

Right? Like, I get that the US sucks and all right now, but the IRGC definitely is the bigger evil here. Imagine if we could have tackled this as a coalition instead of going at it solo(duo?), then bitching nobody is helping.

Whether these monsters had it coming is inarguable. Whether it should have happened this way, whether the war is being well executed, etc., are all perfectly debatable and reasonable questions. But the entire regime deserves far worse than sudden death by missile.

I have a faint memory that this is pretty much how they conducted the Iran-Iraq war as well, including me reading claims of school classes being sought for volunteers to be sent through Iraqi mine fields to clear paths for soldiers etc. [(Plastic Keys to Paradise)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_key_to_paradise)

Listnook believes that Iran cares about fighting the "epstein class" lol

And people will believe it since the majority of people can’t think

And Listnook is gonna eat it up

Reminds me having the Hitler Youth defending Germany.

I suspect this is not an indication of the regime falling, but because they want to publish articles about how Israel/US are 'targeting children'.

Well this may shock you. But millions protested in january and 30k got gunned down in the streets. People here are freaking out about a draft cause our president says mean things on truth and takes a bunch of personal gain on gifts and stocks. These 2 things are not comparable and the IRGC knows they cant draft those civilians because if they get guns they will just revolt.

Well the entire point of this is so Iran can use it as propaganda for the west when the children inevitably get killed. They know how gullible the internet is and they can change the narrative easier with dead children being reported (as opposed to dead soldiers.) Watch Listnook take the bait very soon

Hopefully the regime will fall..

No need for consent. The local cleric is going to consent on your behalf.

They didn't stop at child brides, mass executions, terrorism and other religious extremism- you think this will change their mind?

I’d feel like an idiot saying US has any moral high ground here, they’re definitely operating below moral sea level, but I think it’s safe to say the Iranian regime is WELL below moral sea level