coalition with -- saudi arabia has built a coalition with egypt primarily and you have the new leadership in egypt run by the military that very much wants to flex its muscles and egypt just recently announced that it wants to lead a new -- effectively, a pan arab army. so we are at a real inflection point in the middle east. and i think we could see a lot of changing and very volatile dynamics in yemen. could i go back to one thing you were talking about about iran? please, yeah. >> it's teally weirder than you were describing. it's even more convoluted than the convoluted strategy you were basically describing. the u.s. in iraq -- we'll just take iraq. the u.s. right now is helping this mission in tikrit which is being backed by the militias, and as you said they are potentially going to boycott that operation but the u.s. is backing the operation led by the militias. that's in iraq.