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i'd like to thank glenn hubbard and the jamestown foundation for inviting me to be here today.'s a pleasure because i think i have a great panel and also a very important topic as we all look at what's happening in egypt, tunisia, syria, libya and other places. i think one of the key questions on all of our minds are what about the issue, the people in the region, the new power players, we heard earlier maybe it was bruce gusev is it iran, egypt and iraq will they be the three big power players so today the topic is iran as we look at the gcc and we have a lot of expertise next to me on iran and saudi arabia and also i hope they will touch on the issue of the sectarian divide because we can't really think about the region and the specific week in the gcc as we've seen from iran without also paying some attention to the shia divide. so with that, i will ask why really to think for being here he took the red flight from san diego so thanks for making the extra effort to be here and i will turn it over. >> having three hours of sleep on the plan. okay, thanks very much to plan and