It's Wednesday, April 8, 2026.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We have certainly had a very interesting 48 hours in world affairs, and a lot of it began on Easter Sunday,

when you had the President of the United

States posting on social media. And of course, some of the major and quite understandable

controversies been over the profanity used by the president in that message, let's just say,

very unprecedented in the historic sense and in the moral sense. But nonetheless, the president

was sending a very clear message to the people of Iran. In particular, he was sending a message

to the military Islamic leadership of Iran. And he was sending a clear message that he was going

to bring about mass devastation in that land if they did not open the strait of

homoism, basically cooperate with American and Israeli officials. And we're looking at a situation

that is unfolding minute by minute, but at least as of late last night, the situation seemed

to be holding in which Iran had taken the initiative to offer a 10-point peace plan, President Trump

actually responded at least somewhat positively, saying that at least it was the basis on which

conversations could be held. The United States announced that a ceasefire had been arranged,

and this was a 14-day, two-week ceasefire, but it, of course, is going to be a supervised

ceasefire, and it was contingent, the president said, upon Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, Iran seemed within hours to affirm that it had also agreed to the deal.

Now, Israel's role in this is still not quite clear, but at least in terms of the relationship

between the United States and Iran, this is still not quite clear, but at least in terms of the relationship between the

United States and Iran, this is the first constructive, positive moment we've really had

since the beginning of this war. And of course, we're nowhere near any kind of peace. We're not even

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