the disagreement between brezinski, carter's national security advisor, and cyrus vans, the secretaryut 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 superpowered by the fact that... super economic power and a super military power, we're not a super power in terms of foreign understanding. problem was you had a 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 a later ambassador to, i think azerbaijan and and some other one other country in the the caucasus after the break up of the... union and and escadero was kind of a controversial figure in the sense that he had been an outspoken critic in the mid-70s of our support of essentially of putting all the american national security eggs in the shaw's basket. the third problem was that the american embassy in tehran was wowfully ill-informed about what was going on on the street an