It's Tuesday, March 3rd, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, events continue to unfold, particularly in Iran and in the larger era.

Just a very quick update on where the war stands, even as President

Trump and the Israeli leadership went forward on this on Saturday morning, local time there in

Iran, the reality is that events continue to unfold and they unfold very quickly. There are

other big developments, and as we think about those, it comes down to the

fact we know a great deal more about the why of the timing. We understand why the decision was made

to go forward in a rather daring daylight effort on Saturday morning. Okay, so let's just walk back

and say one of the big developments over the course

of the last several hours is that some of Iran's nefarious allies have joined in the effort.

So as we're looking at the situation, President Trump himself has acknowledged this is a fast

widening theater of war. So, of course, most of the action is taking place in Iran. You have

Israeli and American forces, both in incredible strength from the air. We're talking about no boots

on the ground, so to speak, but an enormous amount of ordinance and aircraft in the air.

We know more about what happened on Saturday morning. We know that it was a series of bombs

that were directed towards the building where the Ayatollah and his senior military staff were

gathered and also in ancillary gatherings around Iran. It now turns out the military intelligence

and in particular Israeli military intelligence, understood that

this was a unique opportunity. The Ayatollah and his senior leadership team, they were in one place,

and they were not in a bunker. They were there in Tehran in what they thought was a safe place.

It turned out, of course, not to be so. You also had other gatherings of senior Iranian military

and government officials, and we now know that the joint attacks undertaken by Israel and the United

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