{"id":32354,"date":"2024-04-22T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/monday-briefing-5\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:16:12","slug":"monday-briefing-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/monday-briefing-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/21\/multimedia\/22ambriefing-europe-nl-promo-update\/22ambriefing-europe-nl-israel2-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Monday Briefing\" title=\"Monday Briefing\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-9ycfei eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1a4bab4f\">\u2018A new chapter\u2019 for Israel and Iran<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After a week of tense internal deliberation and international appeals for calm, Israel struck an air defense system in Iran on Friday, according to Western and Iranian officials. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-israel-strike-tensions.html\" title=\"\">Israel\u2019s airstrike was the latest<\/a> in an exchange of attacks between the countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I spoke about Iran and Israel with my colleague <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/farnaz-fassihi\" title=\"\">Farnaz Fassihi<\/a>, the U.N. bureau chief, who covers the shadow war between the countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">What does this attack mean for the conflict between Iran and Israel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I think it marks a new chapter in their yearslong adversarial relationship because, despite fighting each other covertly, and through proxies, and through shadow operations, it\u2019s the first time in 45 years that they\u2019ve attacked each other directly. So it\u2019s a turning point in the relationship that sort of upends all the previous rules. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They\u2019ve really both taken things up a notch significantly, and I think it remains to be seen whether this latest tit-for-tat will create some sort of deterrence for both sides. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">How are people reacting in Iran?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Iran, people are very anxious about a war with Israel, but this comes on top of many other problems that Iranians have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government has started a very aggressive campaign in the streets, cracking down on women who are not observing the hijab law. The government is summoning activists and journalists or anybody who criticizes their Israel policy. They\u2019re issuing gag orders. So people in Iran <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/21\/world\/middleeast\/iran-economy-israel-war.html\" title=\"\">feel like they\u2019re being squeezed<\/a> from many different sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And the economy is terrible. It\u2019s a sanctioned economy, there\u2019s a lot of corruption, and since this skirmish with Israel, the Iranian currency has been plunging against the dollar. So they\u2019re seeing already the real impacts of this in prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">What do you think will happen next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I think it seems as if both sides are standing down. And there was also a lot of diplomatic pressure and messaging going to both Iran and to Israel \u2014 from the U.S., from regional countries, from European countries, African countries, China, Russia, everybody \u2014 calling Israel and Iran and saying the region just cannot handle another massive war, just stand down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even the Biden administration has told Israel repeatedly that they\u2019re not interested in a war with Iran. The U.S. doesn\u2019t want a war in Iran and has told Netanyahu that the U.S. will help defend Israel, as it did when Iran attacked, but will not participate in attacking Iran. And I think that was calculated into Israel\u2019s decision to scale down because they realized that they would have to fight Iran alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I think people feel like maybe the threat of war has passed, like we went to the brink of war and pulled back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But this is a volatile situation. It\u2019s far from settled \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/17\/world\/middleeast\/iran-israel-attack.html\" title=\"\">because another miscalculation<\/a>, another attack, another assassination, and it could blow up again. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-9ycfei eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5796d470\">U.S. House voted to aid Ukraine and Israel<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The House voted <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/ukraine-aid-bill-gaza-johnson.html\" title=\"\">to approve $95 billion<\/a> in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson marshaled support from both parties to advance the long-stalled aid package.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-9ycfei eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-18eba8db\">Myanmar rebels begin to turn the tide<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the junta in Myanmar staged its coup in February 2021, ending a brief period of democratic reform, much of the country has turned against the military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Recent books and shows are taking a more positive approach to the climate crisis, a kind of \u201capocalyptic optimism,\u201d to borrow a phrase from the sociologist Dana Fisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In confronting the apocalypse, these works all insist that hope matters. They believe that optimism, however qualified or hard-won, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/21\/arts\/television\/climate-change-apocalypse-optimism.html\" title=\"\">may be what finally moves us<\/a> to action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-9ycfei eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1fc36d2e\">Peter Morgan turns from \u2018The Crown\u2019 to the Kremlin<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pivoting from Princess Diana to Vladimir Putin might be difficult for some writers. Not Peter Morgan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After six seasons of the Netflix drama \u201cThe Crown,\u201d Morgan has turned to a different form of royalty: the oligarchs who helped empower Putin. In his play, \u201cPatriots,\u201d which opens on Broadway today after a successful London run, he creates a jigsaw of four Russian men whose fates intertwined in the post-Soviet era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">My <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/theater\/peter-morgan-patriots-the-crown.html\" title=\"\">colleague Maureen Dowd asked Morgan<\/a> if news about the British royal family inspired him to write more about the contemporary monarchy. \u201cNot even for a split second,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">That\u2019s it for today\u2019s briefing. Thank you for spending part of your morning with us, and see you tomorrow. \u2014 Dan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">P.S. Can you place these eight events in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/04\/19\/upshot\/flashback.html\" title=\"\">chronological order<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">You can reach Dan and the team at <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/22\/briefing\/mailto:briefing@nytimes.com?subject=Europe%20Morning%20Briefing%20Feedback\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">briefing@nytimes.com<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Thanks to Farnaz Fassihi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/22\/briefing\/iran-israel-congress-aid-myanmar.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A new chapter\u2019 for Israel and Iran After a week of tense internal deliberation and international appeals for calm, Israel struck an air defense system in Iran on Friday, according to Western and Iranian officials. 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