It was a job offer from a prominent think tank at the heart of the Islamic Republic's policy-making machine.
Jeremy Corbyn's secret blueprint to seize control of Labour's policy-making machine to fast-track a change in the party's position on Trident has been revealed in leaked documents drawn up by his allies in the trade unions.
As a former permanent secretary at the Treasury, its chief economic adviser and as professor of economics at the London Business School, Burns was close to the centre of the government's economic policy-making machine for three decades.
The revelation that Mr Corbyn has failed to meet privately with such a key member of his Shadow Cabinet comes amid reports that the Labour policy-making machine is failing to function as fears grow that a major split over the future of Trident could tear the Labour front bench apart.
If Iran prosecutes its citizens after they started giving service to the policy-making machine of its biggest enemy, the US doesn't even allow such service in the first place by making it illegal and somehow punishes its citizens even before they started such service.
Economic policy making will be different.
Incrementalism has been fruitfully applied to explain domestic policy making, foreign policy making, and public budgeting.
The chaotic policy making is causing unnecessary suffering.
At least we get to influence their policy making".
