Iran Opens Amusement Park For Kids To Practice Attacks On Israel

Children in Iran now have the opportunity to train for jihad in a new educational theme park that both indoctrinates them on the evils of Israel and the United States as well as letting them practice shooting at Western targets. 

The Middle East Media Research Institute, also known as MEMRI, has obtained an interview given to a media source close to the Iranian Republican Guard as it reported on the educational theme park called City of Games for Revolutionary Children Park. 

In Mashad, Iran's second largest city, the park was open free of charge for children between the ages of 8 and 13. The attraction ran for several weeks with the option to run for longer if interest was high. According to the interview, the park was in "high demand" and could be expanded soon.

The City of Games of Revolutionary Children Park consists of 12 stages of jihadist indoctrination. Hamid Sadeghi, the director of the institute hosting the park, described the mission as one that seeks "to convey to the children messages about fighting, the Holy Defense and current global issues, through games, amusements, and group activities."

The Holy Defense he mentions refers to the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s in which more than a half million soldiers were killed on either side. The Holy Defense, it should be noted, is also the conflict in which the Iranian religious and military leadership used young children to clear minefields by giving them plastic keys to Heaven and promising them paradise if they found and exploded a mine with their small bodies.

Children begin learning the doctrinal differences between Shiite and Sunni Islam, namely the appointment of Imam Ali as the successor to Mohammed and his role as the first Caliph. 

The rest of the park's activities lean to a decidedly military nature with the children dressed in camouflage fatigues. 

Crawling under child-sized barbed wire obstacles, learning to move and shoot with child-sized replica AK-47 rifles and launching plastic mortars, one could be excused for thinking that the children were shipping off to war soon.

Here the children shoot bullets and mortars at effigies of the Israeli Prime Minister, the American flag and Israeli flags, the Saudi Royal Family and ISIS fighters. 

Using sandbags for cover and fighting to protect religious shrines, the children receive their violence with a hefty dose of Iranian propaganda that leaves no doubt who the great Satans are in the world.

Here are some of the stages of training and indoctrination the children participate in at the park:

Stage One - Learn about the Mahdi, the messiah in Shia Islam

Stage Two - Children learn the theological basis of the Iranian constitution, as espoused by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Stage Three - Youngsters learn the heroic deeds of the Islamic revolution and the evils of the late Shah

Stage Four - They learn combat tactics, fire plastic bullets and the history of the fight against Iraq. They shoot at Israeli and American effigies.

Stage Five - Children practice defending the Shrine of Zaynab against ISIS using their simulated weapons

Stage Six - There is a grenade throwing contest at effigies of ISIS and the Saudi royal family

Stage Nine - Children are blindfolded and throw grenades at a puzzle in the form of an Israeli flag, smashing it apart before reassembling it.

The center's director praises the final stages for teaching the children that fighting the enemies of Islam requires intelligence and wisdom. 

What is not required, it would seem, is freedom from jihadist propaganda that indoctrinates another generation of youths to wage war against Israel, the US and their allies.

One cannot help but think of the violence coming in ten or twenty years as these military-garbed children shoot and crawl under barbed wire, scale walls and duck around corners with replica rifles as the sound of machines blares in the background. 

In Mashad, the photos of the innocent looking Iranian children dressed for war are an ominous sign that the country is bent on continuing a generational campaign of hatred towards Israel and the West.