5.26.26 Negotiating with Iran, Cuba’s breaking point, legal protection for embryos, and declining bird populations
The World and Everything In It
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4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Iran at the negotiating table, Cuba’s breaking point, legal protection for embryos, and declining bird populations. Plus, Cal Thomas on the sacrifices of earlier generations, American birthday campaign in New Delhi, and the Tuesday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Today, deal-making with Iran, a country that cannot win a battle but rarely |
| 0:10.5 | loses a negotiation. I'll talk with the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies |
| 0:15.3 | in a few minutes. Also, today, how close is Cuba to the breaking point? We'll talk with a former |
| 0:20.7 | U.S. diplomat. |
| 0:22.1 | And a legal challenge that could reshape how IVF clinics handle human embryos. |
| 0:27.8 | Later, birding is booming, even as birds themselves are disappearing. |
| 0:32.6 | Bird conservation, is that a bit of a crossroads? |
| 0:35.2 | And world commentator, Cal Thomas, on what Americans are willing to endure today. |
| 0:47.1 | It's Tuesday, May 26th. |
| 0:49.1 | This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm Mary Reichard. |
| 0:55.7 | And I'm Nick Eiger. Good morning. |
| 0:59.5 | Time now for the news with Kent Covington. |
| 1:04.4 | The U.S. military hit targets in southern Iran Monday. |
| 1:10.5 | American forces hit missile launch sites and two Iranian boats spotted placing mines off the coast. U.S. Central Command says the |
| 1:12.7 | strikes were self-defense. The Iranian boats had moved in on U.S. ships and a surfaced air missile |
| 1:18.3 | site nearby had locked onto two American warplanes. Central Command spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins |
| 1:23.9 | said the U.S. is still, quote, using restraint to keep the April ceasefire in place. |
| 1:29.6 | Hours before the strikes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided this update on peace talks. |
| 1:34.7 | We have what I think is a pretty solid thing on the table in terms of their ability to open up the straits, |
| 1:40.5 | get the straits open, enter into a very real, significant, time-limited negotiation |
| 1:45.2 | on the nuclear matters. |
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