. >> peter garretson, u.s. air force. i wanted to first start with the whole question that we started out, the turks, saudi and possibly egypt. i would think if i were an iranian security planner, i would see that prof live ration as a worse world for me to and i would keep a recessed capability without moving to weaponization until i had somebody on my doorstep doing that, unless i was feeling directly threatened by the united states orr israel. so i -- on the one hand, or at least i heard iran discussing what they would see as a security deficit. i have to wonder then, if sanctions in particular are not expected to work, and i haven't heard from any of you that there's reason to suspect they'll work as they apparently did not with india, and if our strategic competitors think that an eventual reproach month with iran is inevitable, what is the sense in slowing down the potential long-term reproach month with iran by going with a sanctions regime that we think will not work, will consolidate the regime's hold on their po