When I read the report in Shahrzad News called “250,000 female Basijis to receive military training” the first thing that comes to mind is PC repair.

Up to a quarter of a million female members of Iran’s Basij militia are to receive special military and civil-defence training “to prepare them for battle in the cyber war, and against other threats from the enemy abroad.”

IT management probably just started to grasp the cost of infection and downtime. They realize they have an abundant supply of idle and cheap labor and at the same time are short-staffed to clean PCs and reinstall operating systems. So they are now preparing for “battle in the cyber war”. That sounds great and noble; much easier to recruit for special training for cyberwar than for routine military IT repair. Perhaps next we will see an announcement for special forces who train on lavatory threats.