Iran-US Relations and Iran’s Nuclear Program

Part of the "Iran: Past and Present" lecture series.

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A lecture by Professor Mansour Farhang.

Following the 1979 revolution in Iran, Mansour Frahang served as an advisor to the Iranian foreign ministry and as ambassador to the United Nations. He resigned his ambassadorship in protest when his efforts to negotiate the release of the American hostages In Tehran failed. In the early months of the Iran-Iraq war, he worked with international mediators to settle the war. During this period, he wrote and spoke about the threat of religious extremists who had come to dominate the course of the Iranian revolution. In June 1981, following the violent suppression of political dissidents, he was forced to leave Iran. Since 1983 he has been teaching international relations and Middle Eastern politics at Bennington College in Vermont. He is the co-author of U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference (Univ. of California, 1987)! and the author of U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution (South End Press, 1981). Mansour Farhang's third book, A Theology in Power: Reflections on the Iranian Revolution, is near completion.

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