Iran Trains Children for War

[Fafnir]

Comparing Houthis to ISIS?

Yeah!,that one made me do a double take as well

 

[SALMAN F]

Iran Trains Children for War
by Majid Rafizadeh
January 23, 2017 at 4:30 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9801/iran-child-soldiers

• The children, as young as eight years old, are trained to hate the US and Israel and to attack their enemies in the West, as well as to oppose Western values.
• Iran's actions are a direct violation of international humanitarian law that is defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. According to the United Nations, "Human rights law declares 18 as the minimum legal age for recruitment and use of children in hostilities.
• Finally, these institutions that recruit children for war, in violation of the international humanitarian law, are the main beneficiaries of the sanctions relief and billions of dollars being poured into the Islamic republic as a result of the nuclear deal.

Iran is using new methods of recruiting and training children through its paramilitary militia group, Basij, one of the five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The children, as young as eight years old, are trained to hate the US and Israel and to attack their enemies in the West, as well as to oppose Western values.

One of Iran's tactics has been to air promotional video clips on its state media outlets to seduce children. One of the most recent jihadist promotional clips is titled, "Martyrs who defend the sacred shrine."

The translation of the video clip, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), goes:

"Let us rise up to save the sacred shrine.
I have joined [Imam] Hossein's army division.
... I have a warrant from the [Imam Ali] to defend the sacred shrine.
On my leader [Ali Khamenei's] orders I am ready to give my life.
The goal is not just to free Iraq and Syria;
My path is through the sacred shrine [in Syria], but my goal is to reach Jerusalem.
... I do not regret parting from my country;
In this just path I am wearing my martyrdom shroud.
... From Mashhad [north-east Iran], I will walk on foot to Damascus.
I am like the bird who flocks to the sacred shrine."​

The training and teachings inspire hatred in these young children, through rampant anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, and focus on damaging the national security of the Unites States ("the Great Satan") and Israel ("the Little Satan").

At Mashad's theme park, "City of Games for Revolutionary Children," children are trained to engage in wars against the US and Israel. They fire bullets through US and Israeli flags or at effigies such as that of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to Israel National News:

"After registering, children don military uniforms and split up into groups of 8-10. They are accompanied by a 'commander' whom they pledge to obey. They then go through 12 activity stations, which include simulations of the Iran-Iraq war, a 'Revolution chamber,' defending various holy shrines, and traversing a minefield with barbed wire. Along the way, they are told about the directives of the Imam (Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini and Supreme Leader Khamenei."​

The "commander" teaches the children about Islamist values. The Middle East Research Media Research Institute (MEMRI) quotes Hamid Sadeghi, director of Iran's Child and the Future Cultural Center (which runs the theme park):

"One of [our] cultural experts guides the children at the City of Games. First they are brought into the stations of the Ghadir [Shi'ite holiday honoring Imam 'Ali's succession to the Prophet Muhammad] and of the Lovers of Ahl Al-Bayt [the family of the Prophet Muhammad descended from 'Ali], and [the guide] explains to them about the Mahdi [the Shi'ite messiah]. Then they reach the station of the Rule of the Jurisprudent [Velayat-e Faqih], and then the station of the Revolution, where the guide explains about the Islamic Revolution ...An explanation is also provided about the directives of the Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah] Khomeini and [Supreme] Leader Khamenei."​

At the "City of Games for Revolutionary Children" theme park in Mashad, Iran, children are trained to engage in wars against the US and Israel. (Image source: Courtesy Raja News Agency, via Al Arabiya)



The training includes teachings about religious holy wars. Sadeghi, pointed out:

"At the City of Games, we are trying to convey to the children messages about fighting, the Holy Defense and current global issues, through games, amusements, and group activities."​

Iran is not only seducing children, but has actually repeatedly used children in wars, for example, assigning them tasks such as clearing minefields.

Iran's actions are a direct violation of international humanitarian law that is defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. According to the United Nations:

"Human rights law declares 18 as the minimum legal age for recruitment and use of children in hostilities. Recruiting and using children under the age of 15 as soldiers is prohibited under international humanitarian law – treaty and custom – and is defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. Parties to conflict that recruit and use children are listed by the Secretary-General in the annexes of his annual report on children and armed conflict."​

Several Iranian institutions play a crucial role in this matter: the Office of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Ministry of Intelligence (Etela'at), and the militia group Basij.

Finally, these institutions that recruit children for war, in violation of the international humanitarian law, are the main beneficiaries of the sanctions relief and billions of dollars being poured into the Islamic republic as a result of the nuclear deal.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, political scientists and Harvard University scholar is president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He can be reached at Dr.rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu.​

The animal who wrote this article is MEK scum who his organization is mix of communist and Islamist ideology with cult personalityof worshipping the rajavi I who hate the so called the western values

1.what are the so called western values and what are these western values allowing imperialism or gays and letting the men be like woman and woman be like men??!

2.the animal who wrote the article says the oppose the western values of course they are because they are not WESTERN country

 

[pin gu]

Last time I checked its US based companies that making war games left and right they also making good money with these games

Call of duty ( war game )
destiny ( war game )
Blood Stone
Activision Publishing, Inc., also known as Activision, is an American video game publisher. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games


Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited

Doom
Dishonored
Wolfenstein
Fallout


its funny world

 

[Hack-Hook]

Last time I checked its US based companies that making war games left and right they also making good money with these games

Call of duty ( war game )
destiny ( war game )
Blood Stone
Activision Publishing, Inc., also known as Activision, is an American video game publisher. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games


Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited

Doom
Dishonored
Wolfenstein
Fallout


its funny world

Well what Bethesda produce is not wargame

 

[mohsen]

Well what Bethesda produce is not wargame

yes, it's genocide simulators!

 

[pin gu]

Well what Bethesda produce is not wargame

Doom

Dishonored

Wolfenstein

Fallout

there are more games but these are just some well known samples

 

[Hack-Hook]

Doom

Dishonored

Wolfenstein

Fallout

there are more games but these are just some well known samples

compare them by games like counter strike or call of duty or battlefield and tell me how these fantasy and doomsday game can be considered as war games
Dishonored is a stealth action game
lets just not talk about doom its not a wargame its not anything game at all just nonsense game

The Doom video games consist of first-person shooters in which the player controls an unnamed space marine also referred to as Doomguy. The player has to battle the forces of Hell, consisting of demons and the undead. In the games, the player's character will often go back and forth through hell. Doom II: Hell on Earth follows after the events in Doom, the player once again assumes the role of the unnamed space marine. After returning from Hell, the player finds that Earth has also been invaded by the demons, who have killed billions of people.

and this is fallout

 

[pin gu]

compare them by games like counter strike or call of duty or battlefield and tell me how these fantasy and doomsday game can be considered as war games
Dishonored is a stealth action game
lets just not talk about doom its not a wargame its not anything game at all just nonsense game


and this is fallout

tittle : Iran trains children for war

if in Iran someone or some families do it and make costume made cloths for their children or sometimes in these events send them for closer experiment more or less these actions are from all over the world but I dont get it why always the main suspect act like main victim

in fallout 4 the whole story start from nuclear bomb explosion
name it whatever you want to like fantasy RPG doomsday whatever but if the story is based on something like that I call it war game

 

[Hack-Hook]

tittle : Iran trains children for war

if in Iran someone or some families do it and make costume made cloths for their children or sometimes in these events send them for closer experiment more or less these actions are from all over the world but I dont get it why always the main suspect act like main victim

in fallout 4 the whole story start from nuclear bomb explosion
name it whatever you want to like fantasy RPG doomsday whatever but if the story is based on something like that I call it war game

putting Bethesda games there and say its proof that American train children for war is wrong as those games won't train you for shit only make you lazy and fat.
if you wont to have a real argument let put some real article here

http://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-argue-teaching-young-kids-shoot-prevents-gun/story?id=22317419
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/02/180607299/when-it-comes-to-guns-how-young-is-too-young
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/training-kids-with-guns
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/25/kids-guns-and-the-american-way

and this is a training course for your children
http://www.usashooting.org/membership/youth-programs
and here is a manual on how to train your children
http://www.gunsandammo.com/how-to/ga-basics-how-to-choose-your-kids-first-gun/


if you want to make an argument made it so it stick not made some laughing accusation about games those games will teach you nothing there are games there who teach you war there are games out there that reward you for killing civilians but the games you mentioned are not among them.

 

[Hack-Hook]

yes, it's genocide simulators!

Wonder if you ever played those Genocide simulators .

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Iran Trains Children for War
by Majid Rafizadeh
January 23, 2017 at 4:30 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9801/iran-child-soldiers

• The children, as young as eight years old, are trained to hate the US and Israel and to attack their enemies in the West, as well as to oppose Western values.
• Iran's actions are a direct violation of international humanitarian law that is defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. According to the United Nations, "Human rights law declares 18 as the minimum legal age for recruitment and use of children in hostilities.
• Finally, these institutions that recruit children for war, in violation of the international humanitarian law, are the main beneficiaries of the sanctions relief and billions of dollars being poured into the Islamic republic as a result of the nuclear deal.

Iran is using new methods of recruiting and training children through its paramilitary militia group, Basij, one of the five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The children, as young as eight years old, are trained to hate the US and Israel and to attack their enemies in the West, as well as to oppose Western values.

One of Iran's tactics has been to air promotional video clips on its state media outlets to seduce children. One of the most recent jihadist promotional clips is titled, "Martyrs who defend the sacred shrine."

The translation of the video clip, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), goes:

"Let us rise up to save the sacred shrine.
I have joined [Imam] Hossein's army division.
... I have a warrant from the [Imam Ali] to defend the sacred shrine.
On my leader [Ali Khamenei's] orders I am ready to give my life.
The goal is not just to free Iraq and Syria;
My path is through the sacred shrine [in Syria], but my goal is to reach Jerusalem.
... I do not regret parting from my country;
In this just path I am wearing my martyrdom shroud.
... From Mashhad [north-east Iran], I will walk on foot to Damascus.
I am like the bird who flocks to the sacred shrine."​

The training and teachings inspire hatred in these young children, through rampant anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, and focus on damaging the national security of the Unites States ("the Great Satan") and Israel ("the Little Satan").

At Mashad's theme park, "City of Games for Revolutionary Children," children are trained to engage in wars against the US and Israel. They fire bullets through US and Israeli flags or at effigies such as that of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to Israel National News:

"After registering, children don military uniforms and split up into groups of 8-10. They are accompanied by a 'commander' whom they pledge to obey. They then go through 12 activity stations, which include simulations of the Iran-Iraq war, a 'Revolution chamber,' defending various holy shrines, and traversing a minefield with barbed wire. Along the way, they are told about the directives of the Imam (Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini and Supreme Leader Khamenei."​

The "commander" teaches the children about Islamist values. The Middle East Research Media Research Institute (MEMRI) quotes Hamid Sadeghi, director of Iran's Child and the Future Cultural Center (which runs the theme park):

"One of [our] cultural experts guides the children at the City of Games. First they are brought into the stations of the Ghadir [Shi'ite holiday honoring Imam 'Ali's succession to the Prophet Muhammad] and of the Lovers of Ahl Al-Bayt [the family of the Prophet Muhammad descended from 'Ali], and [the guide] explains to them about the Mahdi [the Shi'ite messiah]. Then they reach the station of the Rule of the Jurisprudent [Velayat-e Faqih], and then the station of the Revolution, where the guide explains about the Islamic Revolution ...An explanation is also provided about the directives of the Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah] Khomeini and [Supreme] Leader Khamenei."​

At the "City of Games for Revolutionary Children" theme park in Mashad, Iran, children are trained to engage in wars against the US and Israel. (Image source: Courtesy Raja News Agency, via Al Arabiya)



The training includes teachings about religious holy wars. Sadeghi, pointed out:

"At the City of Games, we are trying to convey to the children messages about fighting, the Holy Defense and current global issues, through games, amusements, and group activities."​

Iran is not only seducing children, but has actually repeatedly used children in wars, for example, assigning them tasks such as clearing minefields.

Iran's actions are a direct violation of international humanitarian law that is defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. According to the United Nations:

"Human rights law declares 18 as the minimum legal age for recruitment and use of children in hostilities. Recruiting and using children under the age of 15 as soldiers is prohibited under international humanitarian law – treaty and custom – and is defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. Parties to conflict that recruit and use children are listed by the Secretary-General in the annexes of his annual report on children and armed conflict."​

Several Iranian institutions play a crucial role in this matter: the Office of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Ministry of Intelligence (Etela'at), and the militia group Basij.

Finally, these institutions that recruit children for war, in violation of the international humanitarian law, are the main beneficiaries of the sanctions relief and billions of dollars being poured into the Islamic republic as a result of the nuclear deal.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, political scientists and Harvard University scholar is president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He can be reached at Dr.rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu.​

At least these boys will grow up to be real, strong alpha males. They won't be weak, feeble, beta girly men. Think we in Pakistan can learn a lot from this.

 

[mohsen]

Wonder if you ever played those Genocide simulators .

Yes, I have played, it's my first hand experience. in the first hours of the fallout x, you can can choose to nuke a city, and no matter what you choose, one of the popular and powerful weapons to get ride of your enemies in the game is mini nukes, practically they are encouraging the children for the use of nuclear weapons.

 

[pin gu]

putting Bethesda games there and say its proof that American train children for war is wrong as those games won't train you for shit only make you lazy and fat.
if you wont to have a real argument let put some real article here

http://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-argue-teaching-young-kids-shoot-prevents-gun/story?id=22317419
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/02/180607299/when-it-comes-to-guns-how-young-is-too-young
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/training-kids-with-guns
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/25/kids-guns-and-the-american-way

and this is a training course for your children
http://www.usashooting.org/membership/youth-programs
and here is a manual on how to train your children
http://www.gunsandammo.com/how-to/ga-basics-how-to-choose-your-kids-first-gun/


if you want to make an argument made it so it stick not made some laughing accusation about games those games will teach you nothing there are games there who teach you war there are games out there that reward you for killing civilians but the games you mentioned are not among them.

the devil is in numbers !
the effect of youth-programs , camps , events and .... are not even close to video games

https://www.cnet.com/news/u-s-naval-research-gamers-make-better-soldiers/

he U.S. Office of Naval Research has found that when it comes to fighting wars around the world, gamers are more capable at taking on the enemy than nongamers.

According to Ray Perez, a program officer in the ONR's warfighter performance department who discussed the findings in the Pentagon Web Radio Webcast, gamers perform "10 [percent] to 20 percent higher, in terms of perceptual and cognitive ability, than normal people that are non-game players."

Perez went on to say that his office has found that video games "increase perpetual abilities and short-term memory." Games also help people focus longer.

The Office of Naval Research is attempting to develop "training technologies and training methods to improve performance on the battlefield." Because current U.S. soldiers are facing "significant challenges," it's becoming more necessary for the U.S. government to find training techniques that improve a soldier's advantage on the battlefield. And according to Perez, gamers might be best equipped to meet those challenges.


Amazingly, the ONR's early research has found that a gamer's improved abilities can last more than two years. That could prove to be extremely valuable to the government, considering that soldiers are typically deployed to war zones for a year at a time.

Although the ONR has a long way to go in determining exactly how video games affect the brain and how they increase the ability of a soldier, researchers are already trying to turn video games into learning tools for today's military personnel. According to Perez, researchers are considering training on mobile devices, as well as simulations in virtual environments.


No mention was made of whether the U.S. government would plan to actively recruit gamers. That said, it would seem like an obvious next choice, considering that they already have the "training" that might make them better soldiers.

The Office of Naval Research will continue to study the effects video games have on soldiers. Look for more on this, as that research is made available.

2010

 

[Hack-Hook]

Yes, I have played, it's my first hand experience. in the first hours of the fallout x, you can can choose to nuke a city, and no matter what you choose, one of the popular and powerful weapons to get ride of your enemies in the game is mini nukes, practically they are encouraging the children for the use of nuclear weapons.

you call that Genocide , then go and play civilization and after attacking just one city or putting it under siege come and tell me what is genocide.