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ISSUE 6.2

The Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and Escalating Tensions between the U.S. and Iran

Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Mansour Farhang

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Interviewed by Shahram Aghamir
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On January 3rd the US assassinated Maj. Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force. The killing of Maj. Qasem Soleimani put in motion a series of events that many people feared may lead to another devastating war, but for now there seems to be a desire to avoid further conflict. So, how did it all begin? Why did the US assassinate Soleimani, and what are the implications of this? Shahram Aghamir spoke with Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Mansour Farhang to discuss these questions and more.

Guests

Mohammad Ali Kadivar
Mohammad Ali Kadivar

Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College

Mohammad Ali Kadivar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College, whose work contributes to political and comparative-historical sociology by exploring the interaction between protest movements and democratization. Kadivar has examined both the internal organization, tactics, and perceptions of pro-democracy movements as well as their success or failure in gaining and sustaining democratic improvements.

He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned a MA and BA in political science from University of Tehran in Iran. From 2016 to 2018, Kadivar was a postdoctoral fellow at Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

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Mansour Farhang
Mansour Farhang

Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Bennington College

Mansour Farhang is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Bennington College. Farhang served as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s first ambassador to the U.N. from 1979 to 1980, but stepped down in protest when Ayatollah Khomeini did not accept the U.N. Commission of Inquiry's recommendation to release the 52 Americans who were held after the storming of the American embassy in 1979. Early in the Iran-Iraq war, he served as envoy in negotiations with international peace missions. Currently, he is on the advisory board of Middle East Watch, a branch of Human Rights Watch. He is the author of U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution; and, with William Dorman, The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference. Farhang has taught at the Claremont Graduate School, the California State University at Sacramento, and Princeton University, where he was also a research fellow at the Center for International Studies. BA, University of Arizona; PhD, Claremont Graduate School. Farhang taught at Bennington from 1983-2014 and held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. He returned as a visiting faculty member for Fall 2017.

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