Mansour Farhang

Professor of Political Science at Bennington College

Guest

Professor of Political Science at Bennington College in Vermont and member of the advisory board of Middle East Watch, a branch of Human Rights Watch; co-author of The US Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference and author of US Imperialism: The Spanish American War to the Iranian Revolution; Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations (1979-1980);

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The US wants a new resolution from the UN Security Council to increase sanctions against Iran for its continued enrichment of nuclear fuel.

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Another Growing Crisis in the Middle East

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