Trita Parsi, the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), discusses why the Iran nuclear deal has so far been more favorable to the US than Iran; Trump’s (probably misinformed) opinion that the deal is terrible and must be scrapped; and what Iran’s loss of its moderate political leaders could mean for diplomacy in the near future.
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