challenges to their legitimacy, internal dissent, problems of government, make this dynamic especially azalea. what we find in arab perception is that a particular concern with iran's ability to meddle in the domestic affairs of arab states, to speak over the heads of arab leaders in a fashion, mobilize populations against these rulers. what you find in the rhetoric is iran is often attributed with a fantastic power to bypass state to state channels and to mobilize a range of opposition groups, ranging from these i 80s in yemen, unrest in egypt, the sin against those in saudi arabia, reports of conversion. even when we look at the fear of a nuclear capable iran, the biggest year is not so much that iran will use this capability against arab states, but that it will provide top cover for iran to continue this policy of meddling in the internal affairs of states. two dynamics may be at work here. the first is that arab leaders may in fact actually believe their populations are susceptible to the mobilizing appeal of iran. particularly, it's rejectionism on the israeli front. they remain sensiti