when i speak at college campuses, i m often asked a question for me that s easy to answer. the question is what was your favorite college course. you might expect it to be something on foreign policy or history or economics. it was not. the course i took at yale that captivated me the most was classics in the history of american cinema or something like that. it was taught by the great film scholar. once a week in the class i was able to escape the pressures of a student s life and enter other worlds as imagined in the greatest films of all time. it s my great pleasure to be reunited with my professor today. welcome. i m delighted to be here. why is it that you wanted to write a book about the opening
counterpart, never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. then this monday trump took a different tone saying this at a news conference. i would meet with iran if they wanted to meet. i don t know if they re ready yet. they re having a hard time right now. i ended the iran deal. it was a ridiculous deal. i do believe they will probably end up wanting to meet. i m ready to meet any time they want to. he went onto say there would be no pre-conditions to a meeting. at the end of the week iran conducted a naval exercise in the straits of hormuz. what is going on inside iran? joining me now to fill us in is tehran bureau chief for the new york times. thomas, what do you make of this naval exercise? this is, of
in berlin advance ticket sales had already begun in spite of rumors that conservative circles in iran were against the project. but that didn t diminish the public interest in fact on the contrary. doesn t understand all the interest in this exhibition is tremendous that is clear and it comes from different places because now you can also see that very clearly on the one hand simply seen vee s warhols and hansen s and rothko s they are really so important in the history of art especially that of the second half of the twentieth century and they ll finally be seen again because that s one thing that it is and then of course there is already such a special interest in the fact that it comes from iran and of course then you think back to the shah s time when the collection originated the works from this museum
in berlin advance ticket sales had already begun in spite of rumors that conservative circles in iran were against the project but that didn t diminish the public interest in fact on the contrary. doesn t listen to all the interest in this exhibition is tremendous that is clear and it comes from different places as you can also see that very clearly it s on the one hand simply seen these warhols and henson s and rothko s they are really so important in the history of art especially that of the second half of the twentieth century and they re finally be seen again because that s one thing it is and then of course there is already such a special interest in the fact that it comes from iran and of course then you think back to the shah s time when the collection originated the works from this museum
public interest in fact on the contrary. does interest and all the interest in this exhibition is tremendous that is clear and it comes from different places as you can also see that very clearly it s on the one hand simply seeing these warhols and hence in some rothko s they are really so important in the history of art especially that of the second half of the twentieth century and they ll finally be seen again because that s one thing it is and then of course there is already such a special interest in the fact that it comes from iran and of course then you think back to the shah s time when the collection originated the works from this museum have a great history is mathieson backing. difficult and. expectations for this cultural exchange were high and not just in germany.