Editing Conscription (section)

=== Iran ===
[[File:Soldiers in Kermanshah, Iran-12.jpg|thumb|Assembling and disassembling gun parts by Iranian soldiers with closed eyes.]]
In [[Iran]], all men who reach the age of 18 must do about two years of compulsory military service in the [[Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran|IR police department]] or [[Islamic Republic of Iran Army|Iranian army]] or [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]].<ref name="BV">{{Cite news |title=سربازی اجباری؛ نیروی کار ارزان در دست نظامیان |language=fa |work=BBC News فارسی |url=https://www.bbc.com/persian/blog-viewpoints-46584364 |access-date=2023-03-16}}</ref> Before the [[Iranian Revolution|1979 revolution]], women could serve in the military.<ref>{{cite book |author-link= |date=October 1973 |title=Middle East Record | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3torytPXdUC&pg=PA477 |location= |publisher=Dishon |page=477 |isbn=9780470216118}}</ref> However, after the establishment of the Islamic Republic, some Ayatollahs considered women's military service to be disrespectful to women by the [[Pahlavi dynasty|Pahlavi government]] and banned women's military service in Iran.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-04-03 |title=مباحثه خواندنی آیت‌الله صافی‌گلپایگانی و آیت‌الله خزعلی در مجلس خبرگان بر سرآموزش نظامی زنان |url=https://www.khabaronline.ir/news/140472/مباحثه-خواندنی-آیت-الله-صافی-گلپایگانی-و-آیت-الله-خزعلی-در-مجلس |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=خبرآنلاین |language=fa}}</ref> Therefore, Iranian women and girls were completely exempted from military service, which caused Iranian men and boys to oppose.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-09-13 |title=جام نیوز :: JamNews - دختران ایرانی به سربازی می روند؟ |url=http://www.jamnews.ir/detail/News/236981 |access-date=2023-03-16 |archive-date=2016-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913192500/http://www.jamnews.ir/detail/News/236981 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In Iran, men who refuse to go to military service are deprived of their citizenship rights, such as employment, [[health insurance]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-10 |title=مرکز پژوهشها - قانون خدمت وظیفه عمومی |url=http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/90966 |access-date=2023-03-16 |archive-date=2020-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210224726/http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/90966 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> continuing their education at university,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-23 |title=اخطار سازمان وظیفه عمومی: داوطلبان کنکور امسال وضعیت سربازی خود را روشن کنند |url=https://www.khabaronline.ir/news/1424771/اخطار-سازمان-وظیفه-عمومی-داوطلبان-کنکور-امسال-وضعیت-سربازی-خود |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=خبرآنلاین |language=fa}}</ref> finding a job, going abroad, opening a bank account,<ref>{{Cite web |last=tebyan.net |date=2010-07-29 |title=اگر سربازی نروید ... |url=https://article.tebyan.net/132040 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=fa |language=fa}}</ref> etc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=مشمولان غایب سربازی از دریافت چه خدماتی محروم می‌شوند؟- اخبار پلیس - اخبار اجتماعی تسنیم {{!}} Tasnim |url=https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1399/11/07/2440153/%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%BA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A8-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA-%DA%86%D9%87-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=خبرگزاری تسنیم {{!}} Tasnim |language=fa}}</ref> Iranian men have so far opposed mandatory military service and demanded that military service in Iran become a job like in other countries, but the Islamic Republic is opposed to this demand.<ref name="BV" /> Some Iranian military commanders consider the elimination of conscription or improving the condition of soldiers as a security issue and one of [[Ali Khamenei]]'s powers as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces,<ref name="BV" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-11 |title=سازمان سربازی ناجا - فرمايشات رهبری |url=http://vazifeh.police.ir/index.jsp?siteid=25&fkeyid=&siteid=25&pageid=5132 |access-date=2023-03-16 |archive-date=2018-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311075553/http://vazifeh.police.ir/index.jsp?siteid=25&fkeyid=&siteid=25&pageid=5132 |url-status=dead }}</ref> so they treat it with caution.<ref>{{Cite news |title=یک قرن با پوتین و کلاه سربازی، از 'قبله عالم' تا 'ولی امر' |language=fa |work=BBC News فارسی |url=https://www.bbc.com/persian/61012214 |access-date=2023-03-16}}</ref> In Iran, usually wealthy people are exempted from conscription.<ref>{{Cite news |last=فردا |first=رادیو |date=2022-01-30 |title=بازگشت فروش خدمت سربازی در ایران؛ این بار تنها برای افراد مرفه |language=fa |work=رادیو فردا |url=https://www.radiofarda.com/a/sale-iran-parliament-military-service/31678149.html |access-date=2023-03-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-30 |title=پولدارها دوباره سربازی نمی‌روند! |url=https://www.khabaronline.ir/photo/1597709/ببینید-پولدارها-دوباره-سربازی-نمی-روند |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=خبرآنلاین |language=fa}}</ref> Some other men can be exempted from conscription due to their fathers serving in the [[Iran–Iraq War|Iran-Iraq war]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=mizanonline.ir |date=2023-03-16 |title=شرایط دریافت معافیت جانبازی برای مشمولان |url=https://www.mizanonline.ir/fa/news/799659 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=fa |language=fa}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-16 |title=معافیت با جانبازی پدر |url=http://vazifeh.police.ir/index.jsp?siteid=25&fkeyid=&siteid=25&pageid=5201 |access-date=2023-03-16 |archive-date=2019-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316080544/http://vazifeh.police.ir/index.jsp?siteid=25&fkeyid=&siteid=25&pageid=5201 |url-status=dead }}</ref>