Service members report commanders framed Iran strikes as 'biblical' Armageddon, MRFF says
Mar 3rd 2026
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it is inundated with complaints from troops who allege some commanders described U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran as divinely sanctioned and referenced the Book of Revelation, according to reporting by independent journalist Jonathan Larsen.
- The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has received more than 110 complaints from U.S. service members across the Middle East alleging commanders used religious language in briefings about recent strikes on Iran.
- An NCO filed a complaint on behalf of 15 troops saying a commander urged them to tell others the strikes were part of God's plan and cited passages from the Book of Revelation.
- MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein told independent reporter Jonathan Larsen that many complainants describe commanders celebrating apocalyptic outcomes consistent with fundamentalist end times beliefs.
- The reporting notes that service members are protected by the First Amendment and by military rules that prohibit coercive proselytizing, and complainants say those rules were violated.
- These allegations were reported by Jonathan Larsen for MRFF and have not been independently verified by the Pentagon in the same reporting.