Thousands of students were sent to operational areas in violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Contrary to commitments and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, thousands of students from Fars and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces were sent to operational areas.

According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child is defined as a person under the age of 18, to which Iran has also joined since 1994. According to this commitment, the use of children and adolescents in militarism is prohibited, while the areas of child labor, punishment, execution, and legal marriage of children, as well as military training and recruitment of persons under the age of 18, are ignored by the Iranian government.

Now, contrary to Iran's international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the section on the non-use of children in military affairs, 12,000 students from Fars Province and 1,712 students from Sistan and Baluchestan Province were sent this year to a camp called "Rahiyan Noor" in the southern operational areas of the country.

Basij, the head of the Rahian Noor camp organization in Fars province, also announced the dispatch of thousands of students to the so-called Rahian Noor camp. According to Omid Hosseini, the dispatched students visited the Fakah Canal, the Kamil Canal, Fath al-Mubin, Alqamah, Talaiyeh, Howayzeh, Beit al-Maqdis, Shalamcheh, the Air and Space Exhibition, and the Ascension of the Martyrs.

"Nader Shahraki" in Sistan and Baluchestan also stated regarding the dispatch of students to operational areas: "The dispatched students visited the monuments of Hoveyzeh, Dehlaviyeh, Nahr Khin, Shalamcheh, and Arvand."

The deployment of students to operational areas has sparked widespread reactions, with some people stating that the Iranian government intends to use children in a possible war, just as it did when it used them in the suppression of nationwide protests.

It should be noted that the students were not sent with their full consent and some of them were even afraid to participate in the aforementioned camp, but no information has been published regarding their dissatisfaction.