Allan: I’d like to open four other questions, and would you please identify yourself and give your name?
Speaker 1: I’m [IB] thank you very much for speaking.
David: Sure.
Speaker 1: Ah, can I get your perspective on two different issues. One is [IB] what is your perspective on the [IB] as well as also what’s going on Iran right now part of the reason why we are not allowed or we should be middling or interfering in Iran is because of interactions, is it harmless saying during the Iran-Iraq war? So, if you could be perfective as the ambassador to Iraq at that time…
David: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you were involved with Saddam Hussein? I would appreciate it, thank you.
David: Well, as far as right now, I think the president has pursued just the right policy and I know it’s very easy to try to meet the feelings of outrage in the United States in the west but to give the Iranians an excuse to blame this all on us, I think it would be a serious mistake, and yeah I know he is under a lot of pressure but I think he has followed the right policy. I think we’ve also gotten a bit carried away with ourselves in the sense- number one, my remembrance of Mousavi, he is the man who’ve often been considered as the one who helped organized the bloody bombing of the marine barracks in Lebanon and his Prime Minister under Khomeini he was anything but a moderate. Now, I think he is a symbol for a real division in Iranian society and I think that’s probably for more American interest a good thing because we will make- I would hope make the Iranians less adventurous unless difficult but I don’t think Mousavi is a great man on a white horse by any means, so I think that policy is generally safe. As far as Anfal and Halabcha, I left in July of ’88. I remember it very vividly the breakthrough but it was a very- it was very difficult for us, any of us as diplomats in Iraq to find out exactly what was going on. This was an- true police state and it controlled everything.