In this special report, Lise Falskow, CEO of the the Alaska World Affairs Council discusses Iran and its nuclear program with Iranian expert Farideh Farhi.
Farhi is an independent scholar and affiliate graduate faculty member of political science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her publications include 'States and Urban-Based Revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua'.
She lived and worked in Iran for most of the 1990s and writes frequently about Iranian politics and foreign policy.
Links to Farideh Farhi's work: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/05/29/nudging-bahrain-without-pushing-it-away/tehrans-noise-is-all-bluster http://www.merip.org/author/farideh-farhi http://fora.tv/2011/08/04/Farideh_Farhi_Making_Sense_of_Irans_Contentious_Politics