{"id":87211,"date":"2026-04-01T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87211"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:00:43","slug":"iran-recruiting-children-as-young-as-12-for-war-rights-groups-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/01\/iran-recruiting-children-as-young-as-12-for-war-rights-groups-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran recruiting children as young as 12 for war, rights groups warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th?id=ONUT.Y_ibAJ8Slj7kS6NM2EJ21Q&amp;pid=News&amp;w=120&amp;h=80&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.7\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iran is recruiting children as young as 12 into military-aligned roles in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-us-war-live-trump-oil-kharg-israel-houthis-updates-b2948815.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">desperate effort to mobilise the population and bolster its war effort,\u00a0<\/a>human rights groups have warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/iran-recruiting-children-as-young-as-12-for-war-rights-groups-warn\/ar-AA1ZOY1k?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69cceaca11d74e79b999cbacb8e8ce7a&amp;ei=69\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Iran is recruiting children as young as 12 into military-aligned roles in a\u00a0desperate effort to mobilise the population and bolster its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Iran-protests1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87213,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211\/revisions\/87213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}