{"id":925,"date":"2013-08-19T16:27:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-25T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:11:00","slug":"contentiran-teach-drone-hunting-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Iran to Teach Drone-Hunting to School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s powerful Revolutionary Guards paramilitary units plan to teach drone-hunting to school students, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The report by pro-reform Etemad daily quoted Gen. Ali Fazli, acting commander of the Guard&#8217;s Basij militia, as saying the new program will be taught as part of a &#8220;Defensive Readiness&#8221; lesson in high schools from late September.<\/p>\n<p>He did not elaborate but the plan suggests students would be taught how to track and bring down drone aircraft by hacking their computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian hardliners have long sought a larger role for the military in the country&#8217;s education system. Students at both junior and senior high schools currently take courses focusing on &#8220;civil defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran captured a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone in 2011 after it entered Iranian airspace. Since then, Tehran says it has seized more U.S. drones, including a Boeing-designed ScanEagle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s powerful Revolutionary Guards paramilitary units plan to teach drone-hunting to school students, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The report by pro-reform Etemad daily quoted Gen. Ali Fazli, acting commander of the Guard&#8217;s Basij militia, as saying the new program will be taught as part of a &#8220;Defensive Readiness&#8221; lesson in high schools from late September.<\/p>\n<p>He did not elaborate but the plan suggests students would be taught how to track and bring down drone aircraft by hacking their computer systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}