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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: Sultan Qaboos: what comes next for Oman?
Description: The first signs that something big was happening came a little after noon on Friday when the army and police deployed across Oman. The tensions between the United States and Iran lead many to assume the sudden deployment was related.
When regular overnight programming stopped and the television stations started broadcasting excerpts from the Quran, it was obvious. Sultan Qaboos, the longest serving monarch in the Middle East, had passed away.
Host James Haines-Young looks at the life of Sultan Qaboos and what’s next for Oman as it looks to the future.