A shocking report claims a US combat-unit commander claimed Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon’ after Saturday’s attack
US troops have reportedly been told by commanders that Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus” to attack Iran and “cause Armageddon”.
Trump announced Saturday that the US and Israel launched a joint operation and struck Iran, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The attack was launched following Iranian nuclear negotiations and weeks of civil unrest in Iran.
After the initial attack, Trump said “heavy and pinpoint bombing” would continue “uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!”
The operation comes less than a year after Trump ordered strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025, during which the President claimed to have obliterated Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Trump told The New York Times this week that he ordered US troops to continue attacking Iran for “four to five weeks”, without providing details of his plan.
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A fresh report found that hundreds of US troops across dozens of units and installations have submitted complaints to non-profit watchdog Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) since the attack, about combat unit commanders providing Christian reasoning for the war, independent journalist Jonathan Larsen reports on Substack.
Non-commissioned officers who attended a briefing Monday told the MRFF that a combat-unit commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ”, Mirror US reports
The commander also reportedly argued that Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth” and that the Iran war is part of God’s plan.
The remarks were submitted in more than 110 complaints about commanders across all military branches, including more than 40 units across 30 military installations, the MFRR told Larsen.
At least one complainant from an NCO identified themselves as a Christian, who could be deployed at any time to Iran, writing on behalf of 15 troops, including 11 Christians, one Muslim and one Jew.
In the NCO’s Monday email, he warned that their commander’s remarks would “destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the [C]onstitution”.
MRFF President Mikey Weinstein, an Air Force veteran, told Larsen that his office has been “inundated” with such complaints, explaining: “These calls have one damn thing in freaking common; our MRFF clients [service members who seek MRFF aid] report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new ‘biblically-sanctioned’ war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian ‘End Times’ as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation.”
He added: “Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
