It’s still a mystery whether the Islamic Republic of Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is even alive. He hasn’t been seen in public since the February 28, 2026 airstrikes that killed his father. Although named Iran’s supreme leader on March 8, 2026, he did not appear at the ceremony commemorating his assumption of this role; it featured a cardboard cutout of him. And in late April, a new mural in Mashhad, Iran “was unveiled honoring deceased Islamic Revolution figures. Some users were confused after current Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s face appeared alongside deceased leaders, including his father.” Nonetheless, if the Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei himself is not posting declarations of jihad on social media, whoever is really in control in the Islamic Republic is doing so.
Dr Omar Mohammed, a counterterrorism analyst at George Washington University, said the supreme leader was describing the war as a “religious duty”. So does Islamic texts….
I asked Allah’s Apostle, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is the best deed?” He replied, “To offer the prayers at their early stated fixed times.” I asked, “What is next in goodness?” He replied, “To be good and dutiful to your parents.” I further asked, what is next in goodness?” He replied, “To participate in Jihad in Allah’s Cause.” I did not ask Allah’s Apostle anymore and if I had asked him more, he would have told me more. Sahih Bukhari Vol 4, Book 52, Number 41
“Let those who sell the life of this world for the next fight in the way of Allah. Whoever fights in the way of Allah, whether he is killed or victorious, on him we will bestow a great reward.” Quran 4:74
A man asks Muhammad “which of men is the best?” Muhammad replies that it is the man who is always ready for battle and flies into it “seeking death at places where it can be expected.” Sahih Muslim 20:4655
In the words of Muhammad: “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.” Sahih al-Bukhari 2797
Iran’s training of children to use AK-47s and conditioning them to become martyrs for Islam is routine among jihadists. This has been seen in groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS), as well as in the Palestinian territories, where the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad routinely indoctrinate kids to wage jihad, and, in fact, send children to jihad summer camp. And now Iran is doing much the same thing.
“Iran caught teaching CHILDREN how to use AK-47s – while Ayatollah ‘declares jihad,'” by Peter Stevens, GB News, May 20, 2026:
Iran has been caught teaching children how to use AK-47 – just as its Ayatollah “declared jihad” in a series of ominous social media posts.
Members of the Iranian military have been seen operating public gun kiosks at public “night-gatherings” in the streets of Tehran.
Civilians, including women and children, are being shown how to assemble and use assault weapons to prepare for further conflict.
The call to arms has extended to hosts of Iranian state media, who were seen delivering addresses to the public while holding assault weapons.
A presenter on Iran’s Channel 3, Mobina Nasiri, told viewers: “They sent me a weapon from Vanak Square so that I too, like all of you people, can learn how to use it.”
And Hossein Hosseini, an anchor on Iran’s state-run Ofogh, fired a Kalashnikov into the ceiling of the TV studio after receiving instruction on how to use the weapon from a masked member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The escalation in preparations were made after Donald Trump called off strikes on Iran……
David Lakatos says
Murdering Muhammadian Jihadist.
Troybeam says
Always stated children are not innocent, they are taught to kill. If they can hold a ak-47 they can learn to use it. Jihad is ingrained from birth, Muslims are sacred others are not, infidels are bad…kill them.
Be this a warning, if confronted with a child pointing a ak-47 at you, you had better be prepared to defend yourself because the child will not listen to you because they have been taught not to,
So, the big question is this: to protect yourself and others if confronted by a child holding an ak-47 that has been taught to use it would you shoot the child to defend yourself, family or others in danger. A brainwashed child is just as dangerous as an adult holding the same weapon.
James Lincoln says
Troybeam,
Yes.
The AK-47 “doesn’t know” if the finger on the trigger belongs to an adult – or a child…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Since the crackdown started in January, normal Iranians opposed to the regime stopped sending their kids to school, given the tendency of the regime to use schools as military bases, as well as using family members as hostages. Therefore, all the kids being taught here are kids of the islamic republicans
I don’t think Mojtaba Khamenei is alive, but the IRGC did a smart thing by getting a dead person declared the supreme leader. That way, it’s impossible for anyone to eliminate him! Also, ever since the Israelis blew up the Assembly of Experts meeting to pick Ali Khamenei’s successor, power in the regime has shifted from the clerics to the IRGC. Problem is that there are many factions of it in different cities, and each of them is making their own calls. That’s the biggest reason why the current negotiations Trump is seeking to do w/ them is even more futile, even w/o the fact that the islamic republicans would lie/cheat about any agreement
David Lakatos says
7th-century Murdering Muhammadian Jihadist.
Patton says
It’s the same old story. It may well be not every moose slime is a terrorist are just about every terrorist is a moose slime. And even those who are not, overwhelmingly support this evil behavior. President Trump is trying to give these people every benefit of the doubt and take every opportunity to achieve a righteous peace. It’s becoming increasingly apparent day by day that that will not be possible. Will innocents, inevitably lose their lives when military action resumes? Of course they will. That is the inexorable nature of warfare. But these scumbags are leaving the good guys with no choice. Not the first time in history this has happened and it won’t be the last. But if America, Israel and other good and decent countries allow all of this to continue unbated, we and generations you have to come will pay an inconceivable price. F-is-slime. And F-BHO. That pitiful excuse for an American president is very much still at the root of this problem. It may have begun 1400 years ago, but he purposely aided its current obscene ascendancy. He and Big Mike.
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable demonic Islamic regime in the training of children to AK- 47 in the jihad is horrifically evil Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is really still alive , we many be sure that he had a large sinister in that affront.
Let him then, set the example, and go out fight with that weapon in battle if really feels that is such a “grand “ thing to.
Training children to become murderous Muslim terrorists is outright evil. This is child abuse to the extreme. It likewise should remembered that those despicable imams in the madrasas who brainwashing children in in his hope of them ,in the future becoming stooges and tools for Islam’s jihad demonically wicked.
Furthermore, to use children as brainwashed Muslim soldiers in the jihad for is totally unconscionable. Those Muslim clerics, as the mullahs, with their Islamic lies and lines to must have kept telling them are completely despicable. Such Koranic lies and lies the say are “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise” and “We are doing this for Allah.”
That’s some very strange kind of “We.” For the reader might, very well, notice that the imams never, ever, strap bombs vests on themselves and then go out and commit the suicide bombing. All those heinous mullahs do is brainwash other people into actually wanting be becomes mind programmed human bombs. Then they manipulative those people to go out and engages in murderous jihad attacks. In other words they create the delusional and dangerous mindset in other to such a demonic extent the theses people are literally dangerous to self and others. Then all the while those suicide/homicide bombings are going on those same Muslims clerics, who mind program those people in the first place ,sit home safe.
This alone shows the real deplorable character of those Muslims clerics . . In addition to all this, there are some good decent people who would be shocked by all this and then stop and wonder and ask “Just how can the Muslim clerics be to very heartless, unfeeling and heinous as the brainwash young and in such deadly ways ,as that ?”
The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches the there are some men who are so hideously cruel, callous and dangerous because that have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N. K.J.V.] The “hot iron.” in this case is Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrendously evil Islamic regime of Iran ,with its deceitful Muslim clerics in those madrassas who indoctrinate, brainwash, impressionable youth into the awful way of thinking that fighting and dying in the jihad for the cause of Islam is a “grand and “thing and wonderful” thing to do are beguiling as they are also evil.
The Bible informs its reader “the counsel of the wicked is deceitful “ Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]
Wakter Sieruk says
The idea that there could be genuine negotiations for with that Islamic regime is an absurdity, because ir is completely evil that it’s training children to use AK -47 to fight the jihad for them..
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran teaches children to use AK-47’s as supreme leader ‘declares jihad’
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Islam abuses children along with all its other horrors.
PATRIOT64 says
The Question that I have with all of the negative News about Muslims can you realistically trust Muslims?
biii says
No surpirise ther./ Who now remembers that during the Iran Iraq war Iran sent companies of children to be slaughtered with the keys to ‘paradise’ hanging around their necks.
Why does noone especially in the non Islamic world, recognise what a foul regime it is?
OLD GUY says
These Islamic leaders always put others even children in dangerous positions while they hide behind walls and are protected from danger. If this supreme leaders is still alive he probably is hiding in a hospital or school.