Monday, March 16, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 11:43)
Iran’s Strategy in the Strait of Hormuz: A Little Geographic Feature Can Be Crucial
Part II (11:43 – 13:53)
Will the West Be Lost in Iran? A Warning About Danger of Ending This War Too Early
- This is a turning point in history, the moment the West could be lost by The Telegraph (Allister Heath)
A Bias Toward Action: Military Action After Over 40 Years of Iranian Threat Is Not Reckless
Part IV (18:03 – 23:32)
ISIS Terror Attacks are on the Rise in the U.S.: Horrifying Clash of Worldview That Is Leading to Targeted Acts of Terrorism in the U.S.
Part V (23:32 – 25:29)
Will Western Civilization Survive? Students of 27 British Universities Protest the Death of Iran’s Ayatollah
- The 27 British universities where students mourned ayatollah’s death by The Telegraph (Poppy Wood)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March 16, 2006. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.7 | worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Sometimes history comes down to relatively small places with very big significance. |
| 0:19.3 | Right now, one of those small places is playing a big role |
| 0:22.7 | in the unfolding history of the military action undertaken by the United States and Israel against |
| 0:28.8 | Iran. That small geographic feature, relatively small, about 24 miles wide, is the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:37.4 | And right now, Iran has shut off all traffic, all traffic. About 24 miles wide is the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:46.6 | And right now, Iran has shut off all traffic, all transit when it comes to shipping from the Persian Gulf into the Gulf of Oman. |
| 0:58.1 | In order to get from the Persian Gulf into the Gulf of Oman, to get into the Arabian Sea, to get into the Indian Ocean, to get to sell your oil, you've got to go through the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:06.2 | Now, there are similar choke points around the world. But the important thing to recognize right now is that one of those choke points is being choked. |
| 1:13.5 | Iran knows that it can basically create massive, massive problems for the United States and Israel, |
| 1:21.3 | and for the rest of the world, particularly the Western world, if it can shut down the straight of hormones for any length of time. |
| 1:24.1 | And already it has become very, very costly. |
| 1:27.8 | It's interesting to see how the national and international conversation has changed pretty quickly. So let's just talk about why. Why would a small choke point, a little |
| 1:33.7 | small geographic feature like that, this little curve in the earth in which you have a narrowing |
| 1:38.9 | of the strait, the strait of Hormuz, where, as I said, you have the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf, |
| 1:52.4 | it will combine. It contains at least somewhere between 10 and 20% of all the world's oil for transit, for sale in the international market. |
| 2:02.1 | Has to get through the Strait of Hormuz, has to get into the Gulf of Oman, has to pass safely to the South, as I said, to the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and beyond. |
| 2:08.9 | The point is that if you can shut down that choke point, you can shut down international oil traffic in that respect. Now, this gets really, really interesting because what we're talking |
| 2:14.3 | about here is something we've referenced before, and that's asymmetrical warfare. Let's look at that more carefully, because in this case, it's asymmetrical in more than one |
| 2:22.3 | sense. Now, let's just talk about the big strategic issue right now. When you look at Iran able to |
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