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Presenters on Iranian TV were seen firing assault weapons in their studios amid a call to arms
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.
But he continued to make threats on social media, warning the "clock is ticking, and they better get moving, fast, or there won't be anything left of them."
PICTURED: A member of the Iranian military instructing children how to use assault weapons in Tehran
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Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has also taken to social media, delivering a series of posts which counter-terror experts have framed as a call to jihad.
The Ayatollah said: "Among the most valuable achievements of the Third Sacred Defense [against the American and Zionist invasion] is the emergence of Iran at the level of a major, influential power."
Dr Omar Mohammed, a counterterrorism analyst at George Washington University, said the Supreme Leader was describing the war as a "religious duty".
He told Fox News: "Strip the euphemism away, and what Khamenei is invoking here is jihad - sacred religious war."
