to get their act together sufficiently to garner a respectable number of seats. their militia days seem to be behind them. they seem to have recognized if they re going to have any appeal going forward, it has to be as a political movement, part of a political iraq. let s talk a little bit about that. muqtada al sadr has been in iran for the last couple of years. what concerns you about iran s role? well, iran is going to be influential, but they re not going to be decisive. i don t agree with those that say they are decisive. again, they invited a lot of parties to tehran for talks that is going to happen. allawi is going to go the saudis are going to be there, we re going to be there. but it s interesting, the sadrist appeal is this sunni, arab, nationalist, iraqi appeal. strong roots in iraq, going back hundreds of years. and muqtada al sadr going in iran has tainted that appeal a little bit. sadrists in iran is not a threat. we haven t seen a sign post of