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The New York Times app has all this stuff that you may not have seen. The way the tabs are at the top with all of the different sections,
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mini, doing the wordle. I loved how much content it exposed me to things that I never would have thought to turn to A news app for. This app is essential. The New York Times app. All of the Times all in one place. Download it now@nytimes.com app. From the New York Times, it's the Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Tuesday, March 31st. Here's what we're covering.
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For the last few days, my colleagues and I in Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. have been trying to gain a better understanding of Iranian leadership and their ability to make decisions. And what we found is there's really a lot of paranoia among Iranian leadership.
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Adam Goldman is part of the team at the Times looking at who is calling the shots in Iran after US And Israeli strikes have taken out dozens of top leaders and their deputies. Adam says those strikes have fractured the government, and while Iran's security and military agencies continue to function, the regime's ability to plan new strategies has been weakened. That's in part because the country's surviving leaders feel it can be dangerous to even talk to each other. They're reluctant to send messages or make calls because they're scared of being tracked by US And Israeli intelligence and killed.
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On the one hand, we found that the Israelis and Americans have been incredibly successful at penetrating Iranian communications and getting the jump on Iranian leaders that they want to target or installations where they might be hiding at. But there's probably an unintended consequence here, which is because of this, this it's made it increasingly difficult for the Iranian regime to not only a enter peace talks, but, you know, be able to communicate with others within the regime about what that peace might look like.
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Adam says that in the past week, President Trump has expressed frustration at what he said are mixed messages coming from Iran, which may be a consequence of the fractured government. Still, Trump is threatening more military action if Iran doesn't agree to a peace deal quickly. Meanwhile, Israel is doubling down on its plans to take control of large parts of southern Lebanon. Its latest push into the country came at the start of the war, after the Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel in solidarity with Iran. But Israel's now saying it could hold that territory even after the conflict ends. Israel has conducted widespread airstrikes and sent ground troops into the region, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Just in the south, Israel's attacks across Lebanon have killed more than 1200 people. The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is intensifying, and it's raising fears for many Lebanese about how long Israeli forces could try to occupy the territory. The last time Israel invaded and took over large parts of Lebanon was in the early 1980s, when it tried to subdue Palestinian groups launching attacks from there. That occupation lasted 18 years. We consider that these deaths reveal systemic failures, operational deficiencies, and possible negligence. The recurrence and frequency of these deaths are absolutely unacceptable. The government of Mexico is speaking out about how many of its citizens have died in US Immigration facilities since the Trump administration ramped up its deportation campaign. Mexico says the Number's now at 14, with the latest death just last week. In all, federal data shows that nearly 50 people from Mexico and elsewhere have died in federal immigration custody since Trump took office. That's a record high since the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ice, was formed two decades ago.