US commanders tell troops Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus’ for Iran war | US | News
US President Donald Trump On Saturday, it was announced that the United States and Israel launched a joint operation to strike Iran overnight, killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of others in the region. The attack, which claimed American lives, was launched amid weeks of civil unrest in Iran over Iran’s nuclear negotiations and economic turmoil.
After the first attack, Trump said the “heavy, precise bombing” would continue “uninterrupted throughout the week or as long as necessary to achieve our goal of PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND REALLY THE WORLD.” While calling for regime change in the Islamic Republic.
The operation comes less than a year after Trump ordered an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities during the 12-Day War between Iran and Israel in June 2025; during which he claimed that the president had destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
A recent report by independent journalist Jonathan Larsen on Substack found that hundreds of U.S. soldiers in dozens of units and installations have filed complaints with the nonprofit watchdog Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) since the attack on combat unit commanders offering Christian justifications for the war.
Non-commissioned officers (NCOs) who attended a briefing on Monday told MRFF that a combat unit commander “encouraged us to tell our troops that this is ‘part of God’s divine plan,’ and he specifically cited numerous quotes from the Book of Revelation that reference Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
The petty officer also allegedly said the commander said Trump “was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire to cause Armageddon in Iran and mark his return to Earth” and that the Iran war was part of God’s plan.
Those comments were contained in more than 110 complaints against commanders across all military branches, covering more than 40 units at 30 military installations, according to MFRR’s statement to Larsen.
At least one complainant among the petty officers wrote on behalf of 15 soldiers, 11 of whom were Christians, one Muslim and one Jewish, stating that there was a Christian who could be sent to Iran at any time. In his chief petty officer’s email Monday, he warned that his commanders’ comments “destroyed morale and unit integrity and violated the oaths we swore to support the military.” [C]establishment.”
MRFF President Mikey Weinstein, an Air Force veteran, told Larsen that his office was “inundated” with such complaints, explaining: “These calls have one damn thing in common; our MRFF customers [service members who seek MRFF aid] report the boundless enthusiasm of their commanders and chains of command that this new ‘divinely sanctioned’ war is a clearly undeniable sign of the rapid approach of the fundamentalist Christian ‘End Times’ as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation.”
He added: “Many of his commanders are particularly pleased with how graphic this war is going to be, focusing on how bloody this all needs to get in order to realize the fundamentalist Christian end-of-the-world eschatology and be 100% aligned with it.”
