Conscription in Iran
According to Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran all men older than 18 years old must go for military service or conscription (Persian: سربازی read "Sarbazi"). Length of conscription is not a fixed time according to the law, it can change due to country's need to soldiers but couldn't exceed 2 years. Minimum time is 18 months.[1]
History
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In June 1925, Reza Shah approved conscription law at National Consultative Majlis. At that time every male person who had reached 21 years old must serve for military for 2 years. However, as country needed 100,000 person and qualified population was 1,000,000 they announced just one man between every 10 men must serve for military.[2][3]
Conscription time
Conscription time is shown in months in each year:
Sexism
Before Iranian Revolution at Mohammadreza Shah Pahlavi's era, both men and women must serve as conscription, but after that law changed and women are not forced to serve for military. However government must let them to learn military lessons as volunteers.[4][5]
References
- ^ "Did you know conscription length in Iran is 30 years?". Aftab (in Farsi). 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Review of Iran's conscription". ISNA (in Farsi). ISNA. 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "conscription law approval". Donyaye eghtesad (in Fasri). 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Why girls do not serve for military?" (in Farsi). Religious answer center. 2006. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Why girls do not go for military service?". Jam news. 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2016.