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WSJ Minute Briefing

Israel Targets Iran's Police State, Hoping to Enable a Popular Uprising

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: South Korean stocks see a record drop as fighting in the Mideast ripples across Asian economies. And James Talarico wins Texas’s Senate Democratic primary. Daniel Bach hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.3

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0:25.3

Here's your morning brief for Wednesday, March 4th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

0:30.6

Israel says it shot down an Iranian jet fighter over Tehran this morning in what it claims is the

0:35.9

first ever air-to-air shootdown of a manned fighter

0:38.5

by an F-35. At the same time, Israel is also continuing attacks against Iran's police state,

0:45.4

hoping airstrikes can clear the way for a revolt against the country's rulers. Israeli defense

0:50.7

minister Israel Katz warned that any new leader appointed by Iran's regime

0:54.7

will become a target. Meanwhile, concerns about the length and impact of the conflict prompted

0:59.9

a deep market sell-off in Asia this morning, with South Korea's Kaspi index plummeting

1:04.6

more than 12 percent, leading to two ponses in trading. South Korea's stock market is quite

1:09.7

sensitive to swings in oil prices with an

1:12.1

economy that relies on heavy industry. The sell-off follows volatile trading in the U.S. and Europe

1:17.3

yesterday, with U.S. stock futures pointing to a lower open this morning. And in Texas, AP is projecting

1:23.4

Democrat James Tala Rico as the winner of a closely watched Senate primary, beating out

1:27.9

progressive Jasmine Crockett. The 36-year-old state rep and Bible Scholars victory is an early

1:33.5

indication of Democratic voters' preferences ahead of midterms. Talarico will face the winner of the

1:39.3

Republican runoff set for May between incumbent Senator John Corny and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,

1:45.9

after neither secured a majority of votes last night. And we've got a lot more coverage of the

1:50.9

day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast. You can add it to your playlist on your smart

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