our third comment is by fariborz ghadar, senior strategic advisement in washington, he holds the william h. meyer chair of global lan and -- global government. >> thank you, sam. can you hear me in the back? great. what i am going to look at this afternoon are the economic conditions in iran and what brought about the dissatisfaction, if that is what it was. i am going to look at the economy in two ways. unity, vulnerability, because of the implications. i will try to tie that in there. mentioning the revolutionary guard, i think that there will definitely be instances on the economic front. what i will try to do headfirst is look at the general economy in total. we were running about 5 million to 6 million barrels per day, prior to the revolution. the economic system is as followed, dropping to 3.3 in 79, 1.3 in 80. it has been brought back up to four, but at this stage it is running about 4 million barrels per day. the director of the international division was interviewed yesterday, he was under the impression that they would be running somewhere around there. overproduction is going

. >> thank you very much, fariborz ghadar. our last presentation is by the non reza their research fellow and he will focus his thoughts on the protest and the gulf and a larger region. >> thanks to robin, we know iran is entering a new phase that is probably more diffuse, opaque, and contracted than the previous weeks. in a way, that makes it harder for all the countries in the region, specifically the arab world to have a good sense of what is happening to iran. how this will play out. it is important to examine that at this point, the implications for middle east security and politics, of the profound changes that have affected iran recently. much will depend on how these various players in the countries, including the great powers will assess the nature of the system that is emerging from the turmoil in iran. from the middle east, and more specifically from the arab states, that much is certain. revolution has entered its second age, ever since the election of ahmadinejad in 2005. this new age has several trades characteri