NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JULY 01: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati (R) and Iranian UN Ambassador Mohammad Mahallati (L) sitting together during the UN mediated Iraq-Iraq war peace talks. (Photo by Bill Foley/Getty Images)
  • Two lawmakers from the Committee of Education and Labor called for an inquiry into Oberlin College’s religion studies professor, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, over his reported ties to Iran.
  • The lawmakers accuse the college of whitewashing Mahallati’s “well-documented involvement in human rights abuses” while he served as Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1987 to 1989.