Iran training schoolchildren in weapon use

Images and reports from inside Iranian schools show students being taught how to use weapons. Additionally, requests have been sent to students asking them to create identification numbers and new projects such as 'Youth Warriors' and 'No+Maydaan' that have been implemented, raising questions about the increasing interference of military and security agencies within schools.

Identification badges have been created, and the military is putting them around the necks for identification.

According to Iranian officials, these programs aim to provide students with defense training and to cultivate revolutionary thinking. However, critics argue that these actions are spreading military movements within schools.

Agreements signed in recent years and implemented projects indicate that the role of military and security agencies in Iranian schools is not limited to just the student organization Basiij.

Basiij is a volunteer organization with a civilian military nature, part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran.

The government led by President Masoud Pezeshkian has also initiated new programs, which are accused of further strengthening the interference of military and security agencies in schools.

At the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s, the Basiij organization implemented a project within schools called 'Xalqahaa-ye Saalixiin' or 'Shajarah Tayyibah Saalixiin'.

This project originally started from mosques and Basij centers, with the aim of educating young people in religion and nurturing them, but after a while, the schools gradually became part of its activities. Among its objectives was to attract students to the activities of Basij.