al maliki at every amount of fiery and former islamic supreme council leader amar al hakim and his late father is al hakim both political and military leaders said to maintain a quote special relationship with tap grant which was detailed in a series of intelligence reports leaked to u.s. media earlier this month iran's also allied with the armed group the popular mobilisation forces the group is sanctioned by baghdad but some say the group represents an iranian military presence in the country. so let's bring in our guests for today's discussion from london we're joined by joe what a member of the research committee of the middle east center at the london school of economics via skype from hartford ship salon hushing me legal advisor to the national council for iraqi opposition and a senior solicitor from turkey iran for what is already a professor at the university of tehran in the faculty of world studies a warm welcome to you all gentlemen let's start with you it's clear that protesters are angry about what they see as iranian influence in iraq but are they right is iran i'm a lion

al maliki in 2006 and then tell now we are talking not about 30000 years now they have all actually been m. board somehow by iran and this is why i feel iran is not going to get easily they are going to have a big fight in iraq but i think that archy's talking about iraq is here iraqis have decided that they will actually also fight this button because it's very much from what we have seen yesterday in najaf and from what we have seen also incredible and other cities they are targeting iranian consulate they are seeing this as a bottle of independence for iraq and i think they are very much. very much keen on actually happening there and dependence having their country back and having their destiny back do you get the sense that mr markey is a fall guy and if he is a fall guy will there be other people who fall behind him or is there a calculation that's been taken in the upper echelons of the iraqi government which is ok here's your sacrificial lamb if you will one man one prime minister now we should be allowed to carry on doing what we were doing anyway but i think i think i do n