were raising questions about, and as i understand it, the powers that be, including the revolutionary guard corpser in pretty much every pie when it comes to the management of iran, they were not happy with some of the solutions you were coming up with. true, and — and i was talking about those even before getting into office. and of course, there are people who have stakes and they are unhappy about someone sitting in london and prescribing solutions, so i was given a chance and i thought that if i can take it to a high levels, and that's what i was doing, it's great. plus, i was not only in charge — i mean i was not commissioned to do water as the only thing. i was in charge of outreach, education, and raising awareness, and that's actually what i was very proud of and very excited about because i believe that you cannot really change and make reforms in a country unless the public know about the things that are wrong and what must be done, and that's where i was trying to invest in. i knew that in four years, no one, no one on earth can solve and address environmental problems, no matter where

encouraging companies to scale back aid which could go to the guard corps is why our goal is to constrain the enron -- islamic revolutionary guard corps. >> what about the naval aggression? of iran? what should be our goal there? >> with regard to the naval aggression, our presence matters. i differentiate between our presence in general and our aircraft carrier presence, but when president obama, for good reasons, talked about a pivot to asia, what many people in the gulf heard was a pivot away from us, so psychologically, there's a sense of abandonment among some of the gc allies. the reason i talk about taking aircraft carriers and pushing them into the arabian sea, is to neutralize the threat posed iranian small boats swarming tactics, where they can reach us but we can't reach them. we can reach them from the arabian sea, they can't retaliate. >> a stronger presence, am i hearing you saying that would be a change from the obama administration's approach? >> between 2003 and 2011, we had one carrier strike group in the persian gulf. between 2000 -- twee 1991 and 2003, we had one, between 2003 and 2011 we had to. what i