Skip Navigation A Deal with Iran is Possible, Peace is
NotMansour Farhang speaks at a Center for Near Eastern Studies
lecture. (Photo: Peggy McInerny, International Institute.)  A
Deal with Iran is Possible, Peace is Not  The foreign policy of
the Islamic Republic of Iran is not irrational—the current
regime needs conflict with the United States to perpetuate
itself in power, said Professor Mansour Farhang. He advised the
United States to reach an implicit understanding with the regime
that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons.  By Peggy McInerny
Director of Communications  Iran’s enmity toward the United
States is really a cultural—not a political—enmity, argued
Farhang. “Death to the United States,” he explained, really
means the rejection of liberal values such as the rule of law,
workers' rights and gender equity.  International Institute,
UCLA, April 1, 2013—It serves the interests of Iran’s ruling
elite to be developing nuclear arms, said Mansour Farhang at a
lecture organized by the Center for Near Ea