clear to iran's leadership that it cannot act with impunity and it's a pleasure to welcome our lifo tolan a judge he's a german iranian political scientist working with the brookings institution in doha and he says so the money. killing was a major blow to the islamic republic and it has opened to pandora's box leaving the middle east in uncharted territory and we're very glad to have andrea claudia huffman with us she is a middle east expert from the german weekly magazine focused and she says killing general so the money has harmed u.s. interests in the region and instead helped the iranian regime. so let me begin by asking all of you please to say just very briefly whether you think what we're seeing now also following the speech on wednesday by u.s. president trump is a real hiatus in the saber rattling or a temporary respite let me start with you matthew i think it probably is a real hiatus in terms of the big strikes the big public strikes with you know the u.s. taking out a prominent general and then the iranians responding directly where there was no question about who was respons