regimes, iran has found ways too mit gays the consequences of the sanctions and evade the sanctions and that's what they are doing with the latest round of sanctions. they've got massive foreign currency reserves to buy them time to find ways around the sanctions, and i think they are busy doing just that. as you say they have russia, china turkey, venezuela and others that are helping them evade the sanctions and that is a significant fact. jamie: let me squeeze one more in, your thoughts, quickly if i could, ambassador, joe biden referred to bb, bb, bb, my friend, we go back. what do you think about the reaction to not having that meeting. did that impact our pwaeult t our ability to support one of our political allies. >> it was a bad mistake by president obama and it sent a signal to others as to just how isolated israel is from the obama administration and what that would mean for israel's security if there were a second obama term.