Background Briefing with Ian Masters: We speak with revolutionary Iran’s first ambassador to the United Nations, Mansour Farhang, a professor emeritus of international relations at Bennington College. He joins us to discuss whether the hawks running Iran who Trump has rewarded by pulling out of the nuclear deal, are in any way likely to make a deal now that Trump has promised to “make Iran great again”. Trump even thanked the IRGC for not shooting down a U.S. spy plane with 30 on board and we will assess whether the Supreme Leader is capable of exploiting Trump’s eagerness to engage in talks since the regime is able to blame all of Iran’s problems on the Americans, not the theocratic kleptocracy they represent.