The United States and the Question of Democracy in the Middle East

Mansour Farhang, revolutionary Iran’s first ambassador to the United Nations, is now a professor of politics at Bennington College. He resigned his position as ambassador in April 1980 after the UN failed to secure the release of the Americans held hostage in Teheran. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on American foreign policy, United States media coverage of international issues, Iran, and Middle Eastern politics.