🔶 Students in wartime conditions; human shield or a target?

🔻 A report by Atfeh Chahar-Mahali

As final exams in Iran resume, reports have been published about the setting of exam zones near military centers. Read our exclusive interview with Deutsche Welle about students’ safety and the responsibility of the parties involved.

Will the flames of war between Iran, the United States, and Israel flare up this time in the final exam sessions of Iranian high school students?

At the same time as final exams restart after multiple interruptions, reports from several cities in Iran indicate that some exam zones have been established near military centers—an arrangement that has raised serious concerns about whether security considerations are being observed in holding final exams.

In recent weeks, Iranian students have prepared not only for final exams, but also in an environment filled with anxiety stemming from the war. Some spoke of repeated postponements, others of harrowing uncertainty, and some of the anxiety that has made focusing on studying impossible.

📌 For full access to the report, visit the Persian-language Deutsche Welle website.