In the madman theory of diplomacy, if your opponent thinks are crazy enough to do anything, they'll agree to your terms.

It only works if your opponent thinks they could lose.

The Iranian leadership doesn't think that they're losing.

I'm Marco Wurman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler.

Today, the danger of brinkmanship in the war with Iran.

Also, a journalist from Afghanistan remembers trying to keep his newspaper alive after the Taliban came back to power.

People are trying to believe the country with any cost.

I was thinking that it's continued.

Plus a political satire in Spain has moviegoers riled up.

And a Japanese drummer breaking glass on stage. People love it.

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All coming up today, here on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for being here. We begin this Monday with a word, brinkmanship, the high-stick strategy of pushing a conflict to the edge of a worst-case scenario so your opponent backs down.

If the rhetoric coming from President Trump in the last 48 hours regarding Iran is, in fact, brinkmanship,

is taking the concept to a dangerous new level.

From his Easter morning truth, social post vowing to wipe out Iranian power plans and bridges

if they don't open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday night to today's press briefing where Trump

reiterated the threat, saying Iran can be taken out in one night and that might be tomorrow night.

We kick things off with Dan Dresner, the academic dean at Tufts, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, to get a sense of where things stand right now.

Although leaders at war have long-paired threats with diplomacy, Dresner says what Trump is doing now is different.

Trump is threatening to basically instigate war crimes.

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