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Since the beginning of the revolutionary movement - Woman, Life, Freedom - in September 2022, many citizens in Iran have been subjected to interrogation, street arrest, torture, and murder, organ theft. A significant part of these victims were children and adolescents, under 18 years old.

Evidences and Numbers
While the Iranian authorities neglect to introduce an official number of murdered children, International politicans oppositional media and Iranian journalists, and human rights activists are often estimating the number of protetsts underaged victims by investigating the individual cases through interviewing local informants, family members and eye witnesses.

History of Children Discrimination
Exlied writer and actor, Zakaria Hashemi, tells the story of a film-making group's visit to the fronts of the Iran-Iraq war in his book, Open Eyes and Open Ears. This book, which is written in colloquial language, is based on his own memories. In several passages of this book, he mentions the presence of teenagers behind the front line and even the front line. These narratives refer to being killed, mistreated, and psychologically and sexually abused by a group of adults. Such a fictional space had no place to refer to other sources and numbers, but Hashemi's numerous references to the presence of children and teenagers in the war atmosphere is another confirmation, it is the record of the Islamic Republic's irresponsible behavior towards children in the early years of its existence. Apart from the topics that are taboo in war literature in Iran, Hashemi's open narrative about children in the war stands against the official narratives about the 8-year war. The works that mainly made war victims, both military and civilian, martyrs and heroes.

In a report written by Hamed Farmand, the Farsi Media website points to several cases of culture-making for the use of children in propaganda, military and paramilitary programs in recent years, and the violation of international obligations in the field of children's rights emphasized by the Islamic Republic.