since we are on iran, i know nikko is here from huffington post. i know you and all across the internet we have been seeing a lot of reports coming from iran. i know there may actually be questions from people in iran who are communicating through the internet. do you have a question? >> i wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question trekkie from an iranian. people are still courageous enough to be communicating on line, and one of them wanted to ask you this. under which condition would you accept the election of ahmadinejad, and if you do accept it without any significant changes in conditions there, given that a betrayal of the demonstrators there. >> we didn't have international observers on the ground. we can't say definitively what exactly happened at polling places throughout the country. what we know is that a sizable percentage of the iranian people themselves, spanning iranian society, considered this election illegitimate. it's not an isolated instance, little grumbling here or there. there is significant questions about the legi