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Hello, dear listeners.

Welcome back to Conflicted.

I'm here, Thomas Small with Aymond Dean, the Oracle of Arabia, looking back at me across the video screen from there where he

lives in Dubai. Hello, Amon. Now, Amon, yesterday the Christians of the East and those fellow

travelers of them in the West celebrated Easter, or Pasca, as we call it. My parish here where I live,

we did slaughter the fatted calf in style. And so I'm having a

little Holy Pascal hangover today as we record. We ended our Lenten fast in style. I can promise

you. Oh, now I'm feeling a little bit worse for where. Well, you know what, look, and I mean,

they always say that the best cure for a hangover is to actually have a stimulating, you know what, look, and I mean, they always say that the best cure for a

hangover is to actually have a stimulating, you know, episode with Aymand Dean.

You, Aman, are the supreme hair of the dog.

Right. Dearest listeners, or dear listeners, rather, we are going to, although you should become a

dearest listener if you're not a dearest listener by joining the conflicted community. But today,

dear listeners, we will be talking about the peace talks that took place in Islamabad over the weekend

on Saturday, to be exact, which, as everyone now knows, did not succeed in their stated ambitions of ending

the Iran war in terms agreeable to both sides, or at least agreeable to the United States,

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