Background Briefing with Ian Masters: Then, with Secretary of State Pompeo today appearing on the Trump Administration’s Pravda, Fox News, signaling Iran saying “President Trump has done everything he can to avoid war. We don’t want war”, we will speak with Nader Hashemi, the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and the author of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future. He joins us to discuss how we got to the current crisis because of Trump’s obsession with Obama and his tearing up on the P5+1 agreement with Iran which has led to the current state of economic warfare with Iran that is unlikely to lead to a diplomatic solution since Iran will retaliate asymmetrically with sneak attacks to drive up the price of oil which Trump wants to avoid heading into the 2020 elections.