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Shortly after the first U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, a report went viral alleging that a commanding officer had told U.S. troops that this was a war “to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.” Although the report has been met with some skepticism, it falls within the U.S. military’s well-documented history of religious fanaticism. In Israel, however, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s long been viewed as a “staunchly secular” politician, raised eyebrows when he linked the War on Iran to the End Times.