user to see this among the smaller gulf states states like oman and gutter out long accused them of hyping, ron two facilitate control and when recognition from washington. in 2006, and oman and a list told us that the greatest threat from iraq nuclear ambitions was not necessarily the bomb itself but rather what he called saudi arabia's overreaction to the threat. close observers of the gulf will argue that this friction is nothing new. they have always march to a different tune. but even if we look farther west to the so-called block a moderate sunni arab states, cairo and riyadh that are supposedly leading the charge against iran we find significant disagreement about the nature of that threat and about arab leadership and hierarchy. much of this cooperation i'm going to argue should be seen as tactical and instrumental. in early 2008, a former egyptian diplomat told us that cairo was worried about the new saudi activism. he said the saudi's are everywhere with initiatives against iran, and this worries us. the saving grace for us is that these initiatives never amount to anything. we c

oman and qatar voice of marge to a different tune but even if we look farther west to the so-called block of moderate sunni arab states, cairo and riyadh that are supposedly leading the charge against iran we find in the disagreements about the nature of that threat and arab leadership hierarchy. much of this cooperation i argue should be seen as tactical an instrumental. in early 2008 a former egyptian diplomat told us that cairo was worried about the new saudi activism and said they are everywhere with initiatives against iran and this worries us, the saving graces of these initiatives never amount to anything and we consider them annoying fact of life. added to this tension between states about what to do about iran there are differences between public and official thinking and we certainly saw this in the aftermath of the 2006 lebanon war when a ahmadinejad enjoy it in a claim in the arab streets and this was quickly dissipated by a stark reminder to arab regimes of iran's provocative ability of a one absentia but over arab regimes and the palestine fun and a clear issue and this memb

reported the country's raferse started a low-altitude bombing exercise over the persian gulf and sea of oman. they said the unrest hadn't affected the country's oil output or crude exports. next a call from lee from alabama. caller: let me read something briefly out of one of the local newspapers, the "tribune" here in marshall county. it was on the front page, these are biweekly newspapers, it says national health care network has singled out marshall medical centers north and south for being the top 1% of hospitals nationwide. these are great hospitals up here, but my point is, i sure wish i could have got in the discussion with him, we pay -- we have blue cross and blue shield insurance which is -- we have the best, which is, we don't pay anything up front, and it's $304.12 a month. that's $3,600.49 a year. the employer pays $500. it's $600. -- $6,000. total price is $9,600.88. and incidentally it also pays some dental. this think that's just come out from the senate and house, the -- where they have come up wan estimate and said on -- based on 36 million people, which i think a third of

there was a waive oman muslims and their were speeches and excitement, and they welcomes their favorite iranian nation. regarding the issue of the holocaust, it is so interesting. in saudi arabia, how is the relation with saudi arabia had during mr. mousavi's time? i don't want to mention what happened during, at this time and what happened at the airport. the only thing i want to say is our ties were severed. he performed in a way that ties were severed for coats zetia arabia got totally severed, and i am amazed. he is worried about saudi arabia. he was writing articles and using harsh criticisms. some of our friends, who are now working in the electoral campaign committee, they never believed in such things. regarding the occupied palestine, he assumes that we should remember his own stances in the past. so, mr. mousavi had exclusively announced we would send military forces to go stand alongside the palestinian resistance group to fight against the occupiers and so mousavi announced the zionist regime must be wiped out. but mr. mousavi, we are not going to talk about tactics. we will