Ankur Desai
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preconditions that have to be met if the talks are going to happen.
Most of all, there has to be a ceasefire in Lebanon as well.
Israel has to stop attacking the positions of Hezbollah.
And so there's still a little bit of doubt.
But if the talks take place, history will be made.
They will be the talks at the highest level, face-to-face.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ruptured their relations.
As we've been hearing, the gaps are still wide.
But if they make a start, it will send a signal of a commitment to diplomacy faced with a very real risk of an escalation in an already too dangerous war.
So what will the Trump administration want out of these talks?
Sarah Smith is in Washington.
We'll find out what's going on.
They're militarily defeated.
And now we're going to open up the Gulf with them, with or without them.
We're going to be or the straight, as they call it.