Iran training female ninjas?

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Iran is reportedly training 'female ninjas' as potential assassins and defenders of the country.

Britain's The Telegraph reported that up to three thousand women are training in martial arts across Iran - age group spanning 5 years to 56.

"We train women to have strength and ability. We have to do everything in our power to protect our homeland," Akbar Faraji, who runs one such school in Tehran, was quoted as saying by The Telegraph.

Iran is on the cusp of declaring strength in the Middle-East. The country recently unveiled advanced centrifuges able to enrich uranium - a move which sparked off an ongoing confrontation with the west, which claims Iran has a ulterior motive to develop nuclear weapons.