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Today's headlines:
- The regime in Tehran somehow managed to shoot down an American F-15 fighter jet over the weekend.
- The aviators from that downed F-15 are both ok.
- Donald Trump’s Truth Social post yesterday seems to suggest that the April 6 deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz has been extended until tomorrow night.
- The internet blackout continues inside Iran.
- The war in Lebanon continues.
- Tough day in Israel yesterday, with a building in Haifa absorbing a direct hit from a ballistic missile, while cluster munitions also hit dozens of locations across central Israel.
- Turkey is somehow getting its oil tankers out of the Strait of Hormuz.
Featured FDD piece: "Islamist Turkey: A Base for Muslim Brotherhood Jihadism" - FDD Memo, Sinan Ciddi and William Doran
FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Freedom House's Yana Gorokhovskaia.
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