US EditionThe Ancient Prophecy Behind the Iran War Is a Modern Invention
American evangelical leaders use a 200-year-old dispensationalist prophecy to influence U.S. political and military attitudes toward Israel and Iran, affecting policy and military culture.
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Crusader-in-Chief: Pete Hegseth’s Christian Zionist Mission to Help Israel Confront Iran
This is how the war on Iran was framed to the men and women ordered to fight it. “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” This was not a sermon at a rural megachurch. It was a combat readiness briefing delivered on March 2, 2026, by a U.S. military commander to non-commissioned officers preparing for deployment to an active war zone, as first reported by jour…
The ancient prophecy behind the Iran war is a modern invention
In the earliest days of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, it became clear this conflict has strong religious undertones. Whistleblower reports from the military detailed accounts of American commanders telling troops that the new war in the Middle East was part of a “divine plan” to bring about the battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. President Donald Trump hosted a score of influential evangelical leaders in the Oval Office to lay h…
Ruth Ferrero was one of the first in our country to warn that after Trump’s apparent flocks at the beginning of this term, an imperial plan and a frontal challenge to the international order based on rules that had emerged after the horrors of World War II. The doctor and professor of Political Science perceives that the U.S. attack on Iran, encouraged by Israel, may have been a serious setback in the American President’s road map. “It seems tha…
David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart on Trump’s Mixed Signals on the Iran War.
David Brooks, formerly at the New York Times and now of The Atlantic, and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett of PBS to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump delivering conflicting messaging on when the war in Iran could end, attacks in the U.S. prompt a wave of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric and the GOP’s push to pass the SAVE Act. More Videos and Reading: Remaking the Middle East: The U.S., Israel and Ira…
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