Teen Police Academies Instill Loyalty

Iran has announced police high schools that will recruit teenagers into formal training pathways (400 initial seats across Tehran, Alborz, Qom). Rather than merely hiring loyal adults, the regime is attempting to socialize and professionalize security personnel at an earlier age to secure long‑term institutional fidelity. — If replicated or expanded, youth‑targeted police education changes how authoritarian states reproduce repressive capacity and complicates external policy, human‑rights monitoring, and protest dynamics.