At a White House Cabinet meeting two weeks ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio complained about the religious clerics who lead the Iranian government. “These are religious fanatics,” Rubio said.
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To be sure, the assessment of officials in Tehran was more than fair, though given what Americans have heard from those seated near the secretary of state, there was a degree of irony to the criticisms. As CNN summarized:
Far from shying away from the idea that there is a religious aspect to the US-Israeli war on Iran, US government leaders are leaning into it, invok ing God and promising fire and brimstone for Iran’s civil society if its leaders do not buckle to US demands.
Even in an administration in which references to Christian nationalism have become routine, Monday offered several examples of the broader phenomenon:
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