August 12th, 2026: Trump’s High-Stakes Gamble to Make Iran Surrender & Assad Sentenced to Death

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:

• President Trump changes course on Iran, stepping back from additional military strikes and betting that sanctions, a naval blockade and Tehran’s worsening economic crisis can finally force the regime to give in.

• Four people are killed after Houthi militants reportedly strike a ship carrying food supplies through the Red Sea near the strategically vital Bab al-Mandab Strait.

• A Syrian court sentences ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for killings, torture and arbitrary arrests committed during the country’s civil war.

• In today’s Back of the Brief, surveillance drones used by British Special Forces reportedly transmit data to China, exposing a troubling vulnerability in Western military supply chains.

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