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Mansour Farhang is a distinguished retired professor of political science at Bennington College in Vermont. He previously held the Catherine A. Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the same institution.
In January 1980, in the aftermath of the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Iran, he was appointed Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, where he sought to assist the newly established revolutionary government in mediating the release of the hostages. Four months later, upon realizing that Ayatollah Khomeini did not intend to secure their release before the U.S. presidential election of November 1980, he resigned.
His publications include The American Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference and American Imperialism: From the Spanish–American War to the Iranian Revolution. His articles and analyses have appeared in academic journals, leading magazines, and major U.S. newspapers. He is a member of the Middle East Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, and his writings are frequently published in both Persian and English media.
