Female 'ninja rangers' train in the desert

The women learn to kill silently, leap over walls and hide on the mountain side at the Jughin Castle 25 miles from Tehran.It may look like a scene out of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - but these women are practicing their moves in a bid to become highly-trained ninjas.They were pictured brandishing deadly weapons while performing back flips and gravity-defying stunts in Iran - where the specialist martial art of Ninjutsu is popular with female pupils. At this club which opened in 1989 and is based at the Jughin castle 25 miles outside of the capital Tehran there are 4,000 women in training to become kunoichi - female ninjas.
They learn to climb and jump walls, hide in the mountains and 'slice the neck of a rival without making a sound'.