Monday, June 23, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 - 11:33)
The Days of False Negotiation are Over: The United States Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Sites
Part II (11:33 - 14:44)
Does the President Have the Constitutional Right to Launch This Kind of Attack? Criticism of the Attack on Iran Raises Major Questions
- Progressives suddenly remember presidents shouldn’t act monarchically by The Washington Post (George F. Will)
Part III (14:44 - 18:58)
Was the U.S. Attack on Iran Justified? What About Just War Theory? Christians Have Even More to Consider About the Attack on Iran
Part IV (18:58 - 23:01)
The Military Intelligence Behind the Attack on Iran: You Too Could Have Read Enough to Know About It in The Wall Street Journal
- Israel Built Its Case for War With Iran on New Intelligence. The U.S. Didn’t Buy It. by The Wall Street Journal (Alexander Ward, Lara Seligman, Dustin Volz)
Part V (23:01 - 27:23)
Is This Iraq All Over Again? Republicans Wrestle with Question of Whom Trust
- Iraq’s Shadow Over the Iran Debate by The Wall Street Journal (Peggy Noonan)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, June 23, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. The tables can turn very, very quickly. That's exactly what happened on Saturday. Saturday, U.S. time, Sunday morning, Iran time, when we now know |
| 0:22.6 | American military forces undertook an attack on nuclear facilities in Iran. It was the first |
| 0:29.7 | major head-to-head confrontation in military terms between the United States and Iran. It came just |
| 0:36.3 | hours after President Trump had indicated that he |
| 0:39.0 | would be making his decision within two weeks. What we now know is not only was the decision |
| 0:43.3 | made, the aircraft were already in motion. It was an incredible operation that required a great |
| 0:48.9 | deal of coordination and a lot of secrecy. That secrecy really wasn't broken until President Trump made his announcement |
| 0:55.9 | on social media that the attack had been concluded. The military's efforts to hide what it was doing, |
| 1:03.4 | to put the matter bluntly, came down to the fact that there were bombers that took off B2 bombers |
| 1:08.5 | headed west over the Pacific. The press looked that way, |
| 1:11.8 | and so did many others. Meanwhile, the real planes in terms of this operation were flying the other way. |
| 1:18.3 | A very effective deception. But we are now an uncharted territory, and we know that the |
| 1:23.9 | American airstrikes against strategic nuclear installations there in Iran do represent a fundamental change in U.S. policies. |
| 1:30.2 | I said there hasn't been a head-to-head confrontation. There is no doubt that the United States and Iran have been in a situation of hostilities going all the way back to the rise of the Islamic Republic in 1979. |
| 1:41.4 | This fundamental change in U.S. policy may lead, we may see, to a wider conflict, |
| 1:47.8 | and that conflict could spiral out of control. We understand right now, as of this moment, |
| 1:52.6 | the risks are huge, but it's also clear that the danger was very, very evident. |
| 1:57.8 | President Trump acted decisively, and American forces did what they alone could do. |
| 2:02.3 | We now know what happened. Powerful and stealthy B-2 bombers dropped as many as 15 massive |
| 2:07.0 | GPU-57 massive ordinance penetrator bombs on Iran's key nuclear installations. Most importantly, |
| 2:14.3 | they're at Fordo, but also Natanz and other ordinance, American ordinance, |
| 2:19.0 | some bonds from submarines hit the key facility at Isfahan, where Iran is believed to store |
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