That is a direct quote from the third in line to the US presidency. So at this point, their justification for a war against Iran is that they worship the wrong God, that is to say, it is a holy war against Islam. But there’s nuance in how he said it. He said that they “want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and they’d like to take us out as well.” So to me this is saying that USA is only a secondary target while Israel is a primary target. Other regime lackeys, like Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth as mentioned in the article, have echoed those comments, often while hypocritically promoting Christian Nationalism themselves.
I have never heard a justification for a war like this in my life. It’s always couched in terms that threaten our safety, but never in terms of it being in any way influenced by what religion they practice, which honestly would be kinda weird since our country was founded on freedom of religion.
But I don’t believe anything this regime says, the truth is always by reading between the lines. To me, the real reason is simpler: distract from the illegal non-release, partial release, and redacted release of the Epstein files, a law that has been passed but still hasn’t been carried out. The heat had been on, and as Trump himself said in the past, in my opinion he started the war to distract from him being one of the ringleaders of the largest sex trafficking, child molestation, and child rape rings ever discovered in America. And right before the “war” and kidnapping of the leader of Venezuela and the current war in Iran, the heat had been rising on his involvement.
And he’ll do absolutely anything to distract from that.