
Publisher Steve Forbes has called on the Trump administration to maintain free passage through the Strait of Hormuz at all costs and to intensify pressure on Iran's regime, with no further ceasefires, as U.S. strikes on Iranian targets entered a ninth consecutive day. The escalating conflict with Iran — a nation whose leadership has repeatedly vowed to annihilate Israel — sits at the centre of end-times prophecy, with Scripture pointing to a final convergence of nations around Israel and the broader Middle East. The Bible identifies Persia (modern-day Iran) as a key aggressor in the coalition described in Ezekiel 38, making every shift in this conflict prophetically significant.