The real axis of evil is recruiting and training foot soldiers.

Al-Qaeda trains young boys, between 6 and 14, as terrorists in Iraq.

The tapes, obtained by FOX News and later released to the media, are training videos showing black-masked Iraqi children between 6 and 14 being taught how to hold AK-47s, stop a car and carry out a kidnapping, break into a house and break into a courtyard and terrorize the individuals living there.

Footage aired for reporters showed an apparent training operation in which the boys are seen storming a house and holding guns to the heads of mock residents. Another tape showed a young boy wearing a suicide vest and posing with automatic weapons.

They also are shown being taught to use rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

Iran has been recruiting 40,000 home grown suicide bombers since 2005.

As the world deals with suicide bombers and radical Islamists, Iran has, once again, upped the terror ante.

Iranian government officials have long denied media reports about a long suicide bomber recruitment program — until now.

According to the London-based daily Asharq Al Awsat, Ayatollah Muhammad Taki Misbah Yazari, a senior figure in Iran’s leadership and spiritual advisor of President Muhammad Ahmadinejad, has issued a call in an Iranian newspaper for the public to join the swelling ranks of Iran’s homegrown suicide bombers.

“Suicide operations are the peak of the nation, and the height of its bravery,” wrote Yazari in a statement.

“Commander Khamani has announced that registration for the suicide bomber force is open all over the country, and encourages Iranians to join in order to safeguard Islam and fight against its enemies.

“This holy organization of the Islamic Republic is aimed at those who are interested in suicide. The volunteer will join specialist courses. Brothers and sisters who believe and are interested in defending Islam are invited to get in touch via P.O. Box Number 1653-664, Teheran, and are asked to send two photos, a copy of their birth certificate. Please enlist in the suicide squad.”

Who is in charge of the suicide organization? According to the report, the man at the top is Elias Nedran, head of the parliamentary conservative faction, and former intelligence officer in the Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Finally, in the scariest move yet, the third member of the axis, Saudi Arabia, recently announced that it will train 40,000 imams under the guise of fighting terrorism. The Saudis will teach the imams to speak softly and do better takiyya (deceive infidels to advance Islam) for casual YouTube viewers.

Saudi Arabia approved a plan to train 40,000 Imams in all regions in the culture of dialogue and communication skills. The King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue in cooperation with the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs will undertake this mission.

How many terrorists can one imam recruit over a lifetime? 1,000?