will be the most important one. as reza says, the people running for president right now won't be able to change the nuclear program, but if they're in power when the ayatollah changes, that could be the most important thing that has happened here. thank you very much to reza. christiane amanpour joins me now. of course, she's iranian by birth and has covered every election in this country since 1995. christiane, when you look at the elections that you've covered, what makes this one different for you? >> the two that stick out in my mind, 1997, is when muhammad mahatma was elected. we covered that. that was an enormous surprise, both internally in iran and around the world. and for eight years of his presidency, there was a real change in iran and with iran's relations with the rest of the world. then i covered the 2009 election, which was when ahmadinejad was going for reelection. that, as we all know, resulted in the green movement, resulted in people saying that the