avenge the killing, make it clear to the terrorists that they can't do this and get away with it is much more serious. but our dithering now or unwillingness of the administration to take a hard-line tells the terrorists you can attack americans with impunity and that is very dangerous. jenna: ied is that question in part because of a question we're looking at today. we're doing a little background. rick is standing by in the newsroom. rick, we learned that iran is going to chair the u.n. conference on disarmy mament at the end of the month. give us a little background on all of this. >> reporter: first time you hear it, general ma, you think -- jenna you think it is a made upheadline from the onion. but it is the truth. courtesy of our good friends at the u.n. that they would allow a country currently being sanctioned for its illegal weapons program to be in charge of something like this is of course ironic and infuriating but the u.n. mission says it is unfortunate and highly inappropriate. the spokesperson saying, quote, while the appointment