Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming out to our first public event of the year for the task force. Let me thank the Atlantic Council and the Plowshares Fund for the generous support. We have been going on for four years and i must say that the news keeps getting better. Some positive indications about the nuclear talks. But we are here to talk about the people to people aspects of the u. S. Iran relationship which are maybe more important in some ways than the technicalities of how many centrifuges iran is allowed to have your want more interaction between the peoples of iran and the United States. I coordinate the Iran Task Force here at the Atlantic Council. Im delighted to have a speaker with us today, someone who has been involved with a run for many years to someone who has also just had their first visit there. A former first term congressman from the Second District of kansas, during his tenure he was a member of the house energy and commerce committee, which has broad