or lindsay lohan was. if you ask some justices what "american idol," is, i think only just as mountain and i would think of atom lambert or the television show for it. the other justices might think of abraham lincoln. some of the justices are great gardners, love to dig in the dirt in their spare time. but for me -- gardening is not for me. it is not right for me. i tend to be a city girl. most of us are more apt, when they think about diversity, to think of it in broad cultural terms related to differences in music or art or literature or food or the like. this is because it is often challenging to develop genuine relationships with people who are not like us. people who require us to better appreciate the unique strengths that each person possesses and what real diversity brings. my eyes of been opened to the new and different world by my colleagues as well as by the lawyers who practice before the court. this has indeed made it more fulfilling and livelier than i could have ever anticipated, and i have

health [inaudible conversations] with >> we are going to resume and we will start as people lohan. this is our final panel before hearing from dr. parazynski at our lunch. you probably will be grateful to know that we only have one more power point, this is a rand conference so of course, it is often power point heavy and apologize for that but we try to limit as much as possible today but i think you'll find david thaler power point well worth it. we have to ever senior analysts at rand presenting the and external perspective today, we heard a lot this morning about negotiations with iran, the internal domestic situation within iran, and rationalism and the economy and now we are returning to iran in the broader region. we will start with david thaler will be focusing on iran's military power projection and a capability is and will be followed by fred wehrey, another senior analyst will be focusing on it regional reaction to iran. so without further ado, thank you. >> thank-you all for being here. i am going to talk today about iran's defense strategy and a little bit about its mi