Word: farhang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mansur Farhang and John Hosein Metavelli, in an article last August in The Progressive, manage to have their cake and eat it too. On the one hand, they wrote. Khomeini "began to build a vast network of coercion and patronage to secure his rule." On the other hand, they described anarchy in the streets and a failure of exported Islamic revolution abroad...
...shouts of the protestors outside were audible in the Langdell South lecture hall, but Farhang merely smiled at the commotion and continued uninterrupted...
...Mansour Farhang, who spoke about the lack of human rights in Iran, had to be whisked away through the tunnel under Langdell Library by Harvard policemen after his hour-long lecture...
Members of the Third World Coalition of minority law student groups, which sponsored the event, called the Harvard police during the speech and five patrol cars converged on Langdell before Farhang was through...
...statement distributed outside the hall, the protestors said Farhang "is totally ignorant of the desires of the people of Iran and doesn't know anything about human rights...