24 APR 2026: Iran Update: Peace in Lebanon, Ayatollah Not Dead Yet // Pope vs. Trump: Round Two // Dems Threaten to Jail ICE, Plot Murder // AI Takes Over the CIA // Trans TV // Good Medical News!
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Friday Headline Brief of The Wright Report, Bryan delivers encouraging developments in the Middle East, including an extended ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that could pave the way for broader regional peace and new energy routes that weaken Iran's strategic grip.
He also provides critical updates on Iran's internal power struggle, reporting that the Ayatollah is severely incapacitated while factions within the IRGC push for either war or survival under mounting economic pressure from the U.S. blockade. Bryan explains how this pressure is choking off billions in oil revenue, while China's massive oil reserves give Beijing temporary insulation and a potential strategic edge in the region.
Plus, Bryan covers escalating tensions between the White House and Pope Leo over immigration policy, a troubling rise in threats against ICE agents, and new concerns about artificial intelligence being used inside the CIA despite reliability issues. He closes with health updates on marijuana policy changes, unexpected risks tied to weight-loss drugs, and an inspiring story from a listener who credits the podcast with helping save her life.
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| 0:00.0 | It's April 24th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.2 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | It's Friday's headline brief. Heavy on news, lighter on analysis, launching us into the weekend with events that as ever are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:31.0 | We begin with global news this morning, starting with good news on at least one part of the war front in the Middle East. |
| 0:38.1 | President Trump and his team have gotten Israel and Lebanon to extend their ceasefire for three more weeks and continue peace talks. |
| 0:44.8 | Axios News report that officials in Beirut and Jerusalem agreed with President Trump, |
| 0:49.6 | although after only his continued arm twisting, that the two nations need to hold fire and focus on a long-term |
| 0:56.0 | peace deal. Now, as you all might remember, that is because peace here in Lebanon and obviously with |
| 1:01.1 | Israel means a much bigger chance that arrow governments like Saudi Arabia will join the Abraham |
| 1:07.1 | Peace Accords. That would then leave Iran as the region's outlier and not recognizing |
| 1:12.3 | Israel's right to exist. Should that happen, this broader regional peace deal, it also means that |
| 1:18.3 | some new oil and gas pipelines could flow from the Gulf Arab countries to both Israel and Lebanon. |
| 1:24.0 | That would bypass then the Strait of Hormuz and dramatically lower the leverage and power |
| 1:28.0 | that Iran has in some of these regional waterways. Pivoting now to some quick analysis and opinion, |
| 1:34.9 | then, you know, this one's so great, so easy. Forget the naysayers. Forget the new resistance. |
| 1:41.3 | All the podcasters, the Democrats that seek to divide and inflame. |
| 1:45.6 | We are on a good, though very difficult path, in part, settling some very ancient fights. |
| 1:52.6 | God willing, what we're seeing in Lebanon will crack the strength that the Islamists and the anti-Semitic wings of people have around the world, |
| 2:00.9 | certainly the ones in the Middle East and Europe and the U.S. |
| 2:04.6 | And I tell you, I'm just, I'm praying hard on this one. |
| 2:07.9 | And if you're so inclined, you might want to do the same. |
| 2:10.6 | We've got to have peace in Lebanon and for it to hold to settle down this region, |
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