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#13224337

21 January 2026

A group of children aged seven to fourteen receives plastic AK-47 rifles while preparing to take part in a military performance near the Iranian border at Shalamcheh with Iraq, 918 km (570 miles) south of Tehran, Iran, on March 24, 2014. Children aged seven to fourteen, in an area near the Shalamcheh border in southern Iran with Iraq, reenact the military operation for the liberation of Khorramshahr, which the Iraqi army occupied at the outset of the Iraq–Iran war in 1980. A group of Basij military personnel under the command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) plans and carries out the performance.

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#13224338

21 January 2026

A group of children aged seven to fourteen receives plastic AK-47 rifles while preparing to take part in a military performance near the Iranian border at Shalamcheh with Iraq, 918 km (570 miles) south of Tehran, Iran, on March 24, 2014. Children aged seven to fourteen, in an area near the Shalamcheh border in southern Iran with Iraq, reenact the military operation for the liberation of Khorramshahr, which the Iraqi army occupied at the outset of the Iraq–Iran war in 1980. A group of Basij military personnel under the command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) plans and carries out the performance.

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#13224339

21 January 2026

A group of children aged seven to fourteen receives plastic AK-47 rifles while preparing to take part in a military performance near the Iranian border at Shalamcheh with Iraq, 918 km (570 miles) south of Tehran, Iran, on March 24, 2014. Children aged seven to fourteen, in an area near the Shalamcheh border in southern Iran with Iraq, reenact the military operation for the liberation of Khorramshahr, which the Iraqi army occupied at the outset of the Iraq–Iran war in 1980. A group of Basij military personnel under the command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) plans and carries out the performance.

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#13224340

21 January 2026

A group of children aged seven to fourteen receives plastic AK-47 rifles while preparing to take part in a military performance near the Iranian border at Shalamcheh with Iraq, 918 km (570 miles) south of Tehran, Iran, on March 24, 2014. Children aged seven to fourteen, in an area near the Shalamcheh border in southern Iran with Iraq, reenact the military operation for the liberation of Khorramshahr, which the Iraqi army occupied at the outset of the Iraq–Iran war in 1980. A group of Basij military personnel under the command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) plans and carries out the performance.

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#13224341

21 January 2026

Iranian children aged seven to fourteen receive plastic AK-47 rifles while preparing to take part in a military performance near the Iranian border at Shalamcheh with Iraq, 918 km (570 miles) south of Tehran, Iran, on March 24, 2014. Children aged seven to fourteen in an area near the Shalamcheh border in southern Iran with Iraq reenact the military operation for the liberation of Khorramshahr, which is occupied by the Iraqi army at the outset of the Iraq–Iran war in 1980. The performance is planned and carried out by a group of Basij military personnel under the command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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#13101321

16 December 2025

Recruits crawl a designated distance with combat gear under the supervision of instructors during the zero day of basic combined arms training with the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025

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#13101322

16 December 2025

Recruits rest following a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025.

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#13101323

16 December 2025

A recruit rests following a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025

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#13101325

16 December 2025

A recruit rests following a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025

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#13101327

16 December 2025

Recruits rest following a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025.

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#13101328

16 December 2025

Recruits rest following a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025.

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#13101329

16 December 2025

Recruits rest following a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025.

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#13101331

16 December 2025

A recruit smokes a cigarette after a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025

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#13101332

16 December 2025

Recruits rest following a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025.

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#13101333

16 December 2025

Recruit Tetiana sits on the ground after a forced march with combat gear during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025

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#13101335

16 December 2025

A recruit covers a designated distance with combat gear under the supervision of instructors during the ''zero day'' of basic combined arms training at the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade at an improvised training ground in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025

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