Iran ready to discuss compromises to reach nuclear deal, minister tells BBC in Tehran

Iran's deputy foreign minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, tells the BBC’s Lyse Doucet in Tehran that Iran is ready to discuss compromises. Meanwhile, President Trump has sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East to increase pressure on Tehran.

Also on today's programme: Sami Abu Wardeh, a UK-based comic asks if struggle and silliness can coexist in his new show Palestine: Peace de Resistance; and, the UK's first British Asian Home Secretary recalls the racism his family endured when he was growing up.

Presenter Krupa Padhy is joined by Roxane Farmanfarmaian, Lecturer of International Politics and Middle East specialist at Cambridge University, and journalist and writer Priya Elan.

(File Photo: Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi at the U.N. headquarters in New York. Credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters )