sharif mami began a policy of meeting the opposition's demands before being made.alth insurance, uh, they just don't have any real appreciation for foreign cultures of any kind, and it's not just the the people, i mean, large numbers of people in the uh put into public office, don't get it, you had a colleague that went in to see george. bush reasonably after the election, it's been 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 super power by the fact that we're super economic power and a super military power, we're not a superpower in terms of foreign understanding, problem was you had uh 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 later ambassador to, i think azerbaijan and and some other one other c