for those who sent those kids out.
When I worked with an international rent-a-rig outfit in the '80, there were a few Iranians with us. I got to be friends with them and one of them lent me a VHS tape about the aftermath of that war.
It showed Australian doctors fixing up the faces of kids who were 10 years and older, who went off to be martyred with their parents blessings. The generals would send waves of these kids against Iraqi positions to clear the mine fields before the main assault. They did, waving their little green books of the Khomeini's quotations as protection.
Those mine fields were peppered with shrapnel-filled "ping" mines of the WWII German variety. Trip the mine and a small charge ("ping") blew the mine up about three feet, where it exploded.
Being kids, these blew at almost face level and as a result, those that survived were disfigured and blinded. The Aussies would do some facial surgery where it would do some good. One scene that really got to me was when a father brought his mutilated and blind teen-aged son to them. The docs said that they could "fix the drooling" but that was all. The father protested that he was told that "there were those in the West who could restore the boy's sight" and that he was willing to give his eyes so that the boy could see again.
The look on the old man's face when he realized he had been lied to was pretty grim. And there were scores of these kids in the same condition. One, a little older, said he couldn't get married as no one wanted a cripple who couldn't support them.
There's got to be a special place in Hell for those who sent those kids out.
Those Iranian boys sent out as human mine detonators were given plastic keys to wear around their necks which the ayatollahs told them would unlock the gates of paradise.
Moral savages then, soon to be savages with nukes now! That’s the Iranian leadership, laughing at the West. Life is truly cheap in that part of the world.