the prime minister also curtailed samac's powers. are rebellious, politically inept, the sharif emamit the... and large numbers of people in the uh put into public office, don't get it. i had a colleague that went in to see george bush reasonably after the election, it spent 45 minutes of his hour with bush trying to explain the difference between sunnis and shiits and came out tearing his hair, and this was fellow that got elected president, you know, there's just very, very limited understanding of, foreign nations and cultures, we're superpowered by the fact that... super economic power and a super military power, we're not a super power in terms of foreign understanding. problem was you had a regime, an administration, i should say, carter administration that had deeply divided council about countries like iran. what they did do is bring in a guy by the name of stanascadero, who was a later ambassador to, i think azerbaijan and and some other one other country in the the caucasus after the break up of the... union and and escadero was kind of a controversial figure in the sense th