'You can’t bomb knowledge': Gospel & geopolitics in Iran

Tim Farron  |  Comment
Date posted:  25 Jun 2025
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'You can’t bomb knowledge': Gospel & geopolitics in Iran

Anti-American graffiti in Iran

Over the weekend, the US conducted bombing strikes by air on three sites of nuclear infrastructure in Iran.

President Trump lauded the operation as a "spectacular military success" against the "world’s number one state sponsor of terror", claiming that Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities had been "completely and totally obliterated".

This comes only weeks after Israel began a series of strikes on Iran – with targeted strikes and car bomb assassinations on generals, politicians, and leading nuclear scientists.

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