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Former Iranian Ambassador Details Iran's Nuclear Program At Dowling College
Dr. Mansour Farhang, former Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations and currently a professor at Bennington College, will discuss the turbulent recent history of his native land on Tuesday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m. in the Fortunoff Hall Hunt Room on Dowling College's Rudolph Campus in Oakdale. The presentation, entitled, "Iran's Nuclear Program And Its International Implications," is part of Dowling's yearlong celebration of Asian culture and is free and open to the public.
Following the 1979 revolution in Iran, Dr. Farhang 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. He returned to the United States (where he had earned his degree and taught in the early '70s) as a research fellow and lecturer at Princeton University.
Dr. Farhang is the author of two books and dozens of articles. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor. Currently, he serves on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, and has been a participant in the seminars of Council on Foreign Relations and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has also appeared as a guest on PBS News Hour, ABC's Night Line, Bill Moyer's Journal, 60-Minutes, CBS's Face the Nation and CNN. He is a regular commentator on the Persian broadcasting of both BBC and Radio France International.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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