"They have even handed guns to children," reads the chilling message from Iran that has just popped up on my phone.A woman in Tehran, who I'm going to call Parisa, has managed to make contact and is sharing her experiences of the war with the ABC.She's just confirmed what multiple human rights organisations have reported — that Iran's regime is now recruiting child soldiers."The regime appears very afraid now," Parisa says."It has weakened and its forces seem exhausted."There are many checkpoints set up across the streets When I go out to buy bread, I don't know if I'll make it back home safely."Navid also says the mood of ordinary Iranians is deteriorating the longer the war drags on.He says people are experiencing severe fuel and food shortages, electrical blackouts, and that millions of people have been displaced.Iran's Health Ministry says more than 2,000 people have been killed by American-Israeli attacks since the war began in late February, including 212 children.Navid is an anti-regimist and had hoped war would topple the authoritarian rule that has oppressed many Iranians for nearly 50 years.But that hasn't happened, and he now doesn't understand what the war has achieved."Small businesses are in terrible condition, and employees are even worse off," he says."Many young people are unemployed