Siamak Dehghanpour hosts VOA OFOGH’s Debate between Mansour Farhang (former IRI Ambassador to the UN) and Abbas Milani (Historian) on IRI plot allegations.
About Mansour Farhang :
Mansour Farhang is professor of international relations at Bennington College,Vermont. He resigned from his post as revolutionary Iran’s first ambassador tothe United Nations when Khomeini’s regime refused to accept the UN’s recommendation to release its US hostages. He is author of U.S. Imperialism:The Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution (1981) and co-author of (University of California Press, 1987).
About Abbas Milani
is an Iranian-American historian and author. Milani is avisiting professor of Political Science and the director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow andco-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University‘s Hoover Institution. He isthe author of several major biographies including The Persian Sphinx : Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, The Shah. His other publications include : Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir, and Modernity and Its Foes in Iran
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