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That's kind of conversation to your soul.

That's conversation between your soul. And then... next conversation. Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome.

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison, and we are excited to bring you the news.

But before we do, I wanted to let everyone know that my recent volume on Cold War liberalism has come out.

So if you'd like to buy it, please go to the link in the show notes and you could use discount code Bessner

26. I did not choose the discount code, but that's what it is. Bessner, 26. So if you're

interested in learning a bit more about Cold War liberalism, please do. All right, Derek, let's

jump into the news. Let's start with Iran and let's start with the next round of talks,

which are supposed to start people hearing this. It would be yesterday on Thursday. And will we

get a war after that? Right. So the talks, as we're recording this, are underway. They went on

for about three hours, I think, Thursday morning, and then they were

scheduled to reconvene at some point after a break. It's the usual folks, Steve Whitkoff and

Jared Kushner on the U.S. side and Abbasarajadji, the Iranian foreign minister, mediated by

Oman. They're holding the talks in Geneva again.

I don't know anything about what's been discussed or whether they've made any progress.

There were a couple of positive indications heading into this round of talks in that the two sides had said some things over the last few days that I think could point the way

to a deal if the U.S. isn't already committed to going to war, which it may be. In particular,

there have been numerous outlets, multiple outlets at this point reporting that the U.S. is

willing to allow the Iranians to maintain a

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