President Trump has warned that the US will destroy Iranian infrastructure — including bridges and power plants near Tehran — in retaliation for any attack on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. This dramatic escalation places the world's most critical oil chokepoint at the centre of a potential US-Iran military confrontation, drawing the Middle East closer to the kind of regional war long anticipated in end-times prophecy. Scripture speaks of a time when Persia (modern Iran) will be drawn into catastrophic conflict in the last days, as seen in Ezekiel 38:5, while Christ Himself warned that wars and rumours of wars would mark the approach of the end (Matthew 24:6).