— Ismail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, commented after posting a meme from the series “Squid Game” about recruiting forces for the U.S. Army:

“Americans, ask yourselves a question:

Why should clemency be offered in return for fighting and being killed in a war that Israel wants to continue and expand—so that your sons and daughters are granted forgiveness?

In a note published in the Jerusalem Post, exactly this idea has been put forward openly: using student-loan debts and credit-card debts to recruit Americans to fight with Iran.

Your lives. Your taxes. Other people’s war.

Don’t let anyone turn you into cannon fodder and a paymaster for a war you never chose.

Don’t let anyone turn your children into mercenaries for their ‘chosen’ and unlawful war.”