“The moment the Middle East changed forever”?
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
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Summary
Saturday brought about a world-altering moment when the United States launched a major offensive against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in June 2025. Using B-2 Spirit bombers and submarine-launched cruise missiles, the US targeted key Iranian sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan in a decisive and stealthy campaign, described by CNN as a potential turning point in the Middle East’s geopolitical balance. How will Iran respond against Israel? How will Iran respond against the US? How will this conflict end? And how should we as Christians respond to the many “unknown unknowns" this week?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | It's Monday, June 23, 2025. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Connor Jones, co-hosts of the Culture Brief podcast, filling in for Chris Elkins |
| 0:18.7 | and narrating today's daily article, authored by our co-founder |
| 0:21.5 | and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Some years ago, I was invited to teach a Bible conference at a church |
| 0:28.3 | of Missouri. One day, I happened to be outside when two B-2 spirit bombers were returning to the nearby |
| 0:33.9 | Whitman Air Force base after a test run. They are unlike any airplane I have ever seen. |
| 0:39.1 | Their flying wing design makes them seem to glide in the air despite their massive size. |
| 0:44.0 | They are so quiet that you cannot hear them until they have passed overhead. |
| 0:47.8 | They project power viscerally as well as militarily. |
| 0:51.6 | Saturday night, that power was on full display when the U.S. employed them |
| 0:55.1 | to stage attacks on nuclear development sites in Iran. CNN called the strikes, quote, |
| 1:00.8 | a momentous moment and gamble for the world. A midsummer night in 2025 could come to be remembered |
| 1:07.0 | as the moment the Middle East changed forever, when the fear of nuclear annihilation |
| 1:11.1 | was lifted from Israel, when Iran's power was neutered and America's sword. The risk now is that the |
| 1:17.3 | Iranian regime responds by attacking U.S. forces, targets, or civilians in the region, and the |
| 1:23.4 | conflict escalates into full-scale war. The U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously stated in 2002, |
| 1:31.5 | There are no knowns. |
| 1:33.6 | There are things we know we know. |
| 1:35.4 | We also know there are known unknowns. |
| 1:38.5 | That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. |
| 1:42.4 | But there are also unknown unknowns. The ones we don't know, |
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