A female commander of the pro-government Basij militia, Zohreh Abbasi, has said that her unit has introduced a special program that allows baby girls to be registered as members of the force and receive training.
Abbasi,
who heads the Hossein Haj Mousaee unit, said that in the past six years
23 baby girls had been trained as Basij members through “Koranic,
cultural, educational, and military” classes.