that was zbig's really bad moment. that established a period of going from there our favorite people to be our hated people. the harvard that, rightly so, for a long time. then a few years later we shot down an iranian airliner loaded with passengers by mistake. that gave on the iranian side of the business that fuse this relationship with the hostility that we rarely have with other countries. now we are seeking to see whether there is a way out. the specific focuses on nuclear weapons but it's a broader issue. my own guess is on the nuclear weapons issue, is it the shah were still around he might be in a very similar place on teen nuclear weapons given the role and the position of iran in the region. but that's not the major point. the question is, can we reach an understanding with iran, which in their eyes is not discriminating against them and yet preserves the middle east or protects it from going one step further into a nuclear competition zone. i don't think we know the answer. and i think we have been trying a