Wednesday, March 18, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the great volatility in Iran, that the U.S. and Israel did not entrap each other, the political commentary at the Oscars, and a competition for the biggest gambling center on the east coast.
Part I (00:13 – 13:20)
The Great Volatility in Iran: Americans Want Answers and a Conclusion, But This Situation Has a Much Longer and Messier History Than Most Realize
Part II (13:20 – 16:54)
The U.S. and Israel Did Not Entrap Each Other: Each is a Sovereign Nation with Respective Self-Interests and are Acting Accordingly
Part III (16:54 – 24:30)
Hollywood is Going to Be Hollywood: The Political Commentary at the Oscars – Do Americans Even Care?
Part IV (24:30 – 27:33)
Competition for the Biggest Gambling Center on the East Coast? The Building of Several Multi-Billion Dollar Gambling Centers Is a Game-Changer
- New Jersey Is Reconsidering Legalizing Casinos Outside Atlantic City by The New York Times (Dana Rubinstein and Tracey Tully)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 18, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.5 | We are facing an avalanche of headlines, and let's face it, so many of them right now are coming, primarily about the joint American-Israeli military action against Iran. |
| 0:24.4 | And, you know, from time to time, Christians need to step back and say, okay, what are the big |
| 0:28.2 | issues here? Because we're talking about so many headlines, it's hard to even keep up with them. |
| 0:33.9 | And of course, yesterday we had the major headlines about an Israeli strike that took out two of the |
| 0:39.9 | main military leaders there in Iran. And of course, that's a thinning group to begin with. |
| 0:45.2 | That includes Ali Larziani, who was the head of the countries that's Iran's Supreme National |
| 0:49.8 | Security Council. He was believed to have been basically in charge between the death of the second Ayatollah and the selection by the Supreme Council of the new Ayatollah, who, by the way, has spoken in terms of a written statement, but is rumored to have been badly injured in terms of the attack that killed his father and other |
| 1:11.2 | members of his family, and he has not been seen in person nor heard in person. And so we really |
| 1:17.1 | are talking about some very interesting days. The other person, by the way, who was killed in the |
| 1:22.1 | Israeli attack was Brigadier General Soleimani, who is identified by the New York Times as the head of a powerful |
| 1:28.3 | plain-closed militia aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. |
| 1:32.7 | Okay, fascinating, fascinating stuff here. |
| 1:35.8 | Because all of this is coming. |
| 1:37.6 | So let's just step back for a moment. |
| 1:39.4 | When you're talking about this, even the vocabulary is at stake. |
| 1:42.6 | What do we call what is going on right now |
| 1:45.6 | in and over and around Iran? Is it a war? Well, the president even used that word when he was |
| 1:52.8 | making initial announcements to the United States concerning the joint U.S. Israeli action, |
| 1:58.8 | but it's not a war in terms of the fact that the president has not |
| 2:02.6 | requested for Congress to issue an official declaration of war. In the Constitution, that's |
| 2:09.0 | an Article I power invested in the Congress. But the president is commander-in-chief, |
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