4.21.26 Iran’s defiance, diplomacy with Cuba, Clarence Thomas’ UT speech, and physicians against assisted suicide
The World and Everything In It
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Iran’s defiance, negotiations with Cuba, Clarence Thomas’ UT speech, and physicians fight against assisted suicide. Plus, Hunter Baker on the Senate’s filibuster, fake bear attacks, and the Tuesday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Is freedom for Cuba really next on the president's to-do list on foreign policy? |
| 0:11.0 | Very soon, this great strength will also bring about a day of 70 years in waiting. |
| 0:17.5 | Also, today can Iran wait out the U.S. and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas |
| 0:23.3 | on America 250. Later, you're nervous going in, but then as soon as you start talking, |
| 0:29.1 | it becomes a conversation. A physician-led campaign to stop assisted suicide from spreading |
| 0:34.4 | to Virginia. And World's Hunter Baker wants a Senate that actually works. |
| 0:46.5 | It's Tuesday, April 21st. |
| 0:49.0 | This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Mary Reikert. |
| 0:53.8 | And I'm Nick Eiger. Good morning. |
| 0:57.6 | Now news. Here's Kent Covington. Vice President J.D. Vance heads to Pakistan today for another |
| 1:03.2 | shot at peace with Iran. Preparations are underway in Pakistan for another round of peace talks, |
| 1:09.2 | though Iran still has not committed to participating. |
| 1:11.9 | That after negotiators left Islamabad earlier this month, empty-handed. State Department spokesman |
| 1:17.1 | Tommy Pigott says President Trump prefers diplomacy to more bombs. He wanted to see a deal |
| 1:22.4 | before Operation Midnight Hammer. He wanted to see a deal after Operation Midnight Hammer. |
| 1:26.5 | He continues to want to see a deal, |
| 1:28.2 | but he is going to see his objectives completed here, the fundamental one of which is that the Iranian |
| 1:32.8 | regime can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Operation Midnight Hammer was the U.S. strike |
| 1:37.8 | last June that hit three Iranian nuclear sites. Tehran has refused to commit to never pursuing a nuclear |
| 1:43.8 | weapon. The current ceasefire |
| 1:46.0 | expires Wednesday evening. Trump says an extension is highly unlikely. Tensions grew sharper |
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