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US-Iran talks to begin in Switzerland as Tehran says it closed Strait of Hormuz · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: The US Vice President J. D Vance has touched down
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  Speaker 1: in Switzerland for talks with Iranian officials on implementing the
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  Speaker 1: US Iran Interim peace Deal. He said they would focus
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  Speaker 1: on issues including Lebanon and ending Iran's nuclear program. Iranian
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  Speaker 1: negotiators have already arrived in Switzerland. Tehran earlier said it
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  Speaker 1: had again closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to
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  Speaker 1: Israel's continued strikes on southern Lebanon. The US military denied this,
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  Speaker 1: saying the strait was open. On social media, President Tromp
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  Speaker 1: said there would be no trolls in no toll sorry
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  Speaker 1: in the Strait of Hormuz, either now or after the
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  Speaker 1: sixty day negotiation period set out for further peace talks ends.
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  Speaker 1: He also suggests the US could impose its own tolls
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  Speaker 1: if a broader deal is not reached between the US
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  Speaker 1: and Iran during the negotiation period. Our World News correspondent
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  Speaker 1: Joe Inward reports, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is Lebanon in the middle of a ceasefire. Clearly it
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  Speaker 2: has not held. The latest village feel the consequences of
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  Speaker 2: that failure was Kanalit local authorities, saying Israeli airstrike killed
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  Speaker 2: seven people. The Kassim shows what he says is a
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  Speaker 2: section of the missile that killed his family.
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  Speaker 3: Madam, it was my in law's house, my wife's two brothers,
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  Speaker 3: my mother in law and her son. There are also
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  Speaker 3: two babies. One was just one month old, the other
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  Speaker 3: is two months old.
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  Speaker 2: Israel says it was responding to attacks from Hespoala. The
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  Speaker 2: Iranian back group say that is a lie, whatever the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Iran's response to the continued fighting was to once again
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  Speaker 2: close the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway that had
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  Speaker 2: only just reopened, although the US has denied that it's closed.
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  Speaker 2: The peace process is clearly in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Manda Yuki yodoshtapohom.
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  Speaker 4: The commitments are very clear and enter the war on
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  Speaker 4: all fronts, including in Lebanon. We have honored our commitments.
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  Speaker 4: They have failed. This constitutes a clear violation of the
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  Speaker 4: ceasefire memorandum.
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  Speaker 2: That will be the main point this high level Iranian
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  Speaker 2: delegation will want to raise as they arrive in Geneva
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  Speaker 2: for talks. Representing the US will be the Vice President
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  Speaker 2: who has recently been critical of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
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  Speaker 2: and knows they could jeopardize a deal. The big problem
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  Speaker 2: is that you have somebody will feed, somebody will find.
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  Speaker 5: If you trying to have a tiger leg gravel where
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  Speaker 5: you've just got a stout to see for long enough
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  Speaker 5: to give the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Although that is not yet how it appears on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: All sides know that before any of the technical details,
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  Speaker 2: whether over nuclear ambitions or sanctions relief, can be discussed,
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  Speaker 2: the fighting in Lebanon will need to come to an end.
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  Speaker 2: The last few days have shown that is easier said
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  Speaker 2: than done. Joe Inwood BBC.
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  Speaker 1: News Charlotte Gallagher is in Jerusalem and explains how the
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  Speaker 1: conflict in Lebanon is so key to the ciscucess of
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  Speaker 1: these talks.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of the key things that's going to be
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  Speaker 5: discussed in Switzerland. As you heard Joe saying there, Lucy,
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  Speaker 5: we heard that there was a ceasefire on Friday that
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  Speaker 5: had been agreed between hes Blah and Israel, and then
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  Speaker 5: within minutes we heard there had been air strikes in
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  Speaker 5: southern Lebanon, both sides HESBLA and Israel accusing the other
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  Speaker 5: of breaking the ceasefire. We know that about forty seven
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  Speaker 5: Lebanese people have been killed and Israel says four Israeli
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  Speaker 5: soldiers have also been killed inside southern Lebanon, so the
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  Speaker 5: clashes have continued, and that's a huge sticking point. That
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  Speaker 5: is one of the main points in this peace deal framework,
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  Speaker 5: that the clashes inside Lebanon have to stop. And we
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  Speaker 5: heard from Iran yesterday they said they were closing the
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  Speaker 5: Straight of horn MOUs because those crashes haven't stopped. Now
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  Speaker 5: the United States say the straightforn Moos is still open.
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  Speaker 5: So it's slightly confusing at this point. But of course
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  Speaker 5: Iran have the power over that stretch of water, and
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  Speaker 5: I think they've really realized in this conflict how much
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  Speaker 5: power that does hold and how much it can influence
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  Speaker 5: the world economy. So that's going to be one of
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  Speaker 5: the key points discussed today. And I think we're going
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  Speaker 5: into these talks with the US and Iran wanting to
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  Speaker 5: prioritize different things.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 5: For Iran, of course, they want the fighting inside Lebanon
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  Speaker 5: to stop. Firstly, they also want their assets unfrozen. They
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  Speaker 5: want to be able to sell oil on the open market.
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  Speaker 5: They want those sanctions lifted. For the United States, they
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  Speaker 5: want a pledge from Iran that they will never make
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  Speaker 5: a nuclear weapon. Now, Iran has said they're not enriching
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  Speaker 5: uranium to make nuclear weapons. They're enriching uranium for energy,
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  Speaker 5: for clean energy. But the United States and many other countries,
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  Speaker 5: including Israel, don't believe that. So they're going in with
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  Speaker 5: different priorities. But they have sixty days to try and
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  Speaker 5: iron out those differences. But guess, firstly, Lebanon and the
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  Speaker 5: straight of hor Moos the key issues that they're going
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  Speaker 5: to want to discuss.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it does look like these talks are going ahead,
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  Speaker 1: because at one point it was a little bit uncertain,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it whether they would actually go ahead at all.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, both sides said they weren't going at one point.
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  Speaker 5: But now we know, as you heard, the Iranian and
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  Speaker 5: the American delegations are inside Switzerland ready for those talks.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, Israel not represented at those negotiations, and it's
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  Speaker 5: been a difficult situation for the Israeli government this because
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  Speaker 5: they went into this war with the United States, but
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  Speaker 5: they've been pretty much sidelined. They hoped that there would
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  Speaker 5: be something in that framework deal about Iran stopping funding HESBLA.
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  Speaker 5: There hasn't been Benjaminettania, who went into that war wanting
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  Speaker 5: regime change inside Iran. Well, if anything, Lucy, the Iranian
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  Speaker 5: regime is stronger than it was before the war. So
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  Speaker 5: people inside Israel are feeling quite vulnerable from this deal
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  Speaker 5: and also quite constrained because, of course, the most powerful
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  Speaker 5: ally of the United States wants Israel to stop fighting
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  Speaker 5: inside Lebanon because they feel it could really risk that
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  Speaker 5: peace deal with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte Callagha for us there in Jerusalem. Abbas Milani is
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  Speaker 1: director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. He gave me
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  Speaker 1: his analysis of where the diplomatic issues are for the
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  Speaker 1: US and Iran.
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  Speaker 6: Mike kich is the more serious problem isn't whether it
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  Speaker 6: is right now open or not, but what Iran's real
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  Speaker 6: position is, Because there are talks in Iran and Iranian
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  Speaker 6: media in the last few hours that says mister Harmony,
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  Speaker 6: the new alleged Supreme Leader has made it very clear
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  Speaker 6: that Iran will have monopoly control over the straight up hormones,
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  Speaker 6: and it will collect money for it, and it will
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  Speaker 6: decide who shall go through and who shall not, and
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  Speaker 6: that it is, he says, a non negotiable. If that
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  Speaker 6: is the real position of Iran. I think the issue
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  Speaker 6: of its temporary closure is bet the beginning of a
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  Speaker 6: more serious problem.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we've got President Trump claiming that it may
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  Speaker 1: be US tolls that are enforced on the straight of Foremos.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what bass, what legal basis that can
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  Speaker 6: have Even Iran and Omans claim for trying to make
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  Speaker 6: maybe get some kind of a service fee is subject
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  Speaker 6: to a lot of legal debate. But in the United
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  Speaker 6: States claiming that it can collect money, I don't know
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  Speaker 6: of any basis where that can happen.
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  Speaker 1: And what are your thoughts on the prospects of these
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  Speaker 1: talks being successful. We've got this issue, of course, of
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon and Iran wanting the fighting to stop in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: We've got the issue of Netan Yahoo and his domestic
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  Speaker 1: pressures and the influence that has on the situation on Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the prospects for these talks
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  Speaker 1: being successful.
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  Speaker 6: My assumption is that in spite of all of this
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  Speaker 6: pyrotechniques and verbal jousting, both sides wanted to well. I
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  Speaker 6: don't think around wants a resumption of the war, certainly,
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  Speaker 6: mister trumpeters and't wanted. Iran is in desperate need of
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  Speaker 6: economic relief sanctioned. Really, they're going to make a hard
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  Speaker 6: borgain because the message in Iran there is a minority,
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  Speaker 6: still a vocal minority, that believes that there should be
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  Speaker 6: no negotiation, that Iran has won this war, that it
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  Speaker 6: has defeated the US and Israel and should begin to
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  Speaker 6: collect the damages. That radical position. I think this accounts
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  Speaker 6: for some of these verbal jousting and the threat that
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  Speaker 6: was made by one Iranian commander of a IRGC. So
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  Speaker 6: my sense is that mister Trump also very much wants
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  Speaker 6: to have a deal. Iran wants to have a deal,
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  Speaker 6: and they both want to declare it as their victory.
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  Speaker 6: That they both want to say that the other side
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  Speaker 6: has made all the concessions and they have made none.
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  Speaker 1: A Basboloney from Stanford University