If you please put your phone on silent i would shake that. Appreciate that. I am doing the same thing right now. My name is michael pregent , i would like to welcome you all to todays panel. Also welcome our cspan audience. Today we have a panel called stuck in the middle. Iraq cut between United States and iran. These tensions are leading to discussion as to whether or not iraq could be the battlefield for these two powers in the region will iran being in the region this is likely to take place in iraq we may have some disagreements there. But today we are going to discuss it and we will do this like a sunday morning show format. I will provide a scene center and leave it to our panelist to break it down. We have a great panel today starting first with geneive abdo. She is the former head of research under kofi annan about bridging the gaps between the islamic communities in the west. She is also the reason author of a book on shia sunni relations, sectarianism. Doctor tran 12, the Ro