Vermont Public Radio Speaks with Faculty Member Mansour Farhang: Analysis of Iranian President's Visit

Former United Nations ambassador to revolutionary Iran and international relations faculty member, Mansour Farhang, weighed in on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to the United States and the future of Iran in an interview with Vermont Public Radio’s Steve Zind. To listen to the Wednesday, September 26, 2007 conversation, click here.

Farhang served as revolutionary Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations, resigning in protest when the Khomeini regime refused to accept the U.N. Commission of Inquiry's recommendation to release American hostages in Teheran. Early in the Iran-Iraq war, he served as envoy in negotiations with international peace missions. Currently, he is on the advisory board of Middle East Watch, a branch of Human Rights Watch. He is the author of U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution; and, with William Dorman, The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference; he is also a frequent contributor to scholarly journals and the national news media. He has taught at the Claremont Graduate School, the California State University at Sacramento, and Princeton University, where he was also a research fellow at the Center for International Studies. BA, University of Arizona; PhD, Claremont Graduate School. He has taught at Bennington since 1983.