Mike Baker

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It's Wednesday, the 22nd of April.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

And yes, still battling a late spring or early summer cold.

But I do think it makes my voice sound rather, I don't know, sultry, perhaps alluring.

Maybe not.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, the fighting may still be paused, but inside Iran, the crackdown is intensifying.

Thousands detained, and now even the graves of protesters are being targeted.

I'll have the details.

Later in the show, the United Arab Emirates, the UAE, says it has dismantled an Iran-linked terror cell accused of plotting coordinated sabotage attacks inside their country.

Plus, new warnings that China's cyber espionage capabilities are now on par with the U.S., with Beijing increasingly targeting Western defense firms.

And in today's Back of the Brief, Israel scrambles to contain the fallout after soldiers are caught desecrating a statue of Jesus in Lebanon.

But first, today's PDB Spotlight.

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