Mansour Farhang

Mansour Farhang is an Iranian-born anti-imperialist and anti-Shah writer. He 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.

He currently teaches international relations and Middle Eastern politics at Bennington College in Vermont, where he has been a faculty member since 1983.

He also sits on the Middle East Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch. He holds a BA from the University of Arizona (1965) and a PhD from Claremont Graduate School (1970).Books:

*U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference (Univ. of California, 1987)

*U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution (South End Press, 1981).