resistance in the region and retaliation for the gaza war, there's lebanon's, hezbollah, yemen's ansarla resistance were to talk about 2006, for example, i remember back then, hazballah was basically standing alone in confronting the israeli side, you uh of course, we have to mention that iran did support, hasballah syria also, but set those two countries apart, there was other, real support for hazballah, indeed some of the arab countries back then were even against hazballah and rooting for the israeli side, so things have changed lot since 2006, uh, yemen in particular has emerged as a force to be reckoned with, um, this... crisis ironically has actually strengthened the access led by iran whilst the aim maybe of some of those who were behind the crisis in syria was to weaken the iranian that lead block. what's happened actually is that this block has further strengthened um hazballah were played a part and now we have hazbal law model if you would like present in syria uh in iraq as well you have a group with which is called all the hazballah brigades, so you have what i would call the expansio