Christian Zionists Helped Stoke Trump’s Iran War
The Christian Zionist movement has long pushed for regime change in Iran. With allies in Donald Trump’s inner circle and its ideas seeping into the US military, it has played a key role in building support for the current war.
Christians United for Israel and the broader Christian Zionist movement have long been pushing for Iran regime change. (Michael Brochstein / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)
The morning after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, began his globally broadcast Sunday sermon with a special note about the “brilliant execution of Operation Epic Fury.”
“It’s refreshing to know that God is in total control and he has plans that will not be removed,” he told his parishioners.
Hagee, too, is in control, and the war in Iran is part of his — and his lobbyists’ — plans.
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