
The US has briefed President Trump on military options including full-scale war against Iran, even as direct diplomatic talks in Doha have collapsed, with Iranian officials refusing face-to-face negotiations and Tehran's Foreign Minister warning Israel — referred to as Washington's 'pet' — of an 'immediate powerful response' to any threat. The standoff between a nuclear-ambitious Iran and the US-Israel alliance places this crisis at the epicentre of end-times biblical geography, with the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's threatened retaliation, and the drumbeat of regional war converging on the very theatre Scripture identifies for final-days conflict. Daniel 8 foresaw a powerful Persian force (modern Iran) at the centre of a great end-times confrontation, while Ezekiel 38 names Persia explicitly among the nations that come against Israel in the last days.