IRAN CALLS UP THE DISTAFF VOLKSSTURM: Iran trains women to take up arms against new US offensive.

Iran is training women to use weapons and engage in urban warfare to defend against a possible US offensive.

Images and footage circulated by Iranian media outlets show women, some in uniform, learning to handle assault rifles at open-air training centres in Tehran.

Organisers say the courses cover urban defence, familiarisation with weapons from the Kalashnikov to the Dragunov sniper rifle, RPGs and shoulder-fired air-defence launchers, alongside rescue, firefighting and navigation modules designed specifically for women.

The drive is part of “Jan-fada” – Persian for “those who sacrifice their lives” – a mass-mobilisation movement launched this year after the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign against the country.

Sasan Zare, the campaign’s spokesman, said military training had begun under the Basij militia and that more than 500,000 people had registered within 100 minutes when enrolment opened for its “national resistance” battalions, filling the first 1,000 units.

Authorities have since approved a second 1,000 units. Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who has not been seen since he was injured in the US-Israeli bombing in late February, praised the turnout in a message last week.

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More details here: Many Military and Government Officials Oppose Expansion of “Jan-Fada” Campaign.