4.7.26 Training for a military rescue, Iran’s leadership choice, Astronauts travel farthest from Earth, and a book about today’s cultural crisis
The World and Everything In It
WORLD Radio
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Training for a military rescue, Iran’s leadership choice, Astronauts travel farthest from Earth, and Carl Trueman’s new book. Plus, Daniel Suhr on the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, Jonathan the tortoise, and the Tuesday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Details from a daring rescue mission in Iran. |
| 0:09.5 | We will always come find you, and we will always bring you home. |
| 0:14.1 | Also, the astronauts of Artemis II make their way around the moon. |
| 0:18.2 | And Carl Truman on what happens when a culture rejects God's design. |
| 0:22.6 | If the problem we face today is desecration, then the answer is consecration. And world commentator |
| 0:27.8 | Daniel Sir on the quiet cogs in the wheels of justice. It's Tuesday, April 7th. |
| 0:39.9 | This is The World and Everything in it from Listener, supported world radio. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Mary Reichard. |
| 0:45.1 | And I'm Lindsay Mast. |
| 0:46.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:48.6 | Time now for the news with Kent Covington. |
| 0:52.0 | Iran has until tonight to open the Strait of Hormuz or face massive U.S. |
| 0:57.0 | strikes on its infrastructure. That's the threat from President Trump reiterating that threat once again |
| 1:02.0 | at the White House on Monday. Where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of |
| 1:15.1 | business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again. |
| 1:19.1 | The Iranian regime has used terrorist strikes and the threat of them to largely close the |
| 1:24.9 | Strait of Hormuz to shipping since the start of the war. That is a |
| 1:28.1 | critical choke point for oil tankers. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, though, warned that even |
| 1:33.4 | partial strikes on those kinds of targets could kill thousands of innocent people calling it, |
| 1:38.2 | quote, a war crime. Trump has issued similar ultimatums before pulling back each time after citing diplomatic progress. |
| 1:46.6 | Seas-fire talks involving Pakistan and Oman are still ongoing. |
| 1:51.2 | Also at the White House on Monday, the president and other top officials touted that daring weekend rescue of two American aviators from a downed F-15 fighter jet in Iran. A rescue that's very historic, it'll go down to the books. |
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