but emma sky believes that was never in the cards. iraq s prime minister al maliki had a new set of patrons, his fellow shiites in tehran, and the mullahs made him an offer he couldn t refuse. that was part of iran s deal with al maliki, we ll give you a third term, but the conditions are, no american soldiers. that was what tehran had demanded. there was no way it would have gone through the parliament. one thing is clear, it was only iraq s army that could have stopped isis. instead, iraqi soldiers threw down their weapons and ran. [ phone ringing ] hello? next on blindsided. what drives these people? what makes them tick? you ll go inside theind of a radical. meet a man who was prepared to die for a fantasy.