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We're beginning under the warm blue skies of the Gulf,
the place that seems to have become the go-to location for some of the toughest geopolitical negotiations around the ones that aren't just knotty,
but involve massive military peril.
And today in Oman, we've got the start of talks between the US and Iran.
Talks about, well, that's one of the points of contention, what they're actually about.