An outspoken New York City college professor, known for her critical views on Israel and the United States, recently sparked controversy with her comments at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting. Professor Corinna Mullin, a political science academic with a history of activism, defended Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and advocated for the end of U.S. global dominance “by any means necessary.”
Mullin, who has previously faced arrest for organizing anti-Israel demonstrations that caused significant damage to the City College of New York’s campus in Harlem, praised Iran’s military efforts for reducing U.S. weapon stockpiles in the Middle East. Calling Iran’s military achievements “phenomenal,” she encouraged support for the country’s armed forces during her presentation at the NYC chapter of the DSA.
“Iran has emerged victorious in this conflict,” Mullin asserted during the hour-and-a-half-long “Islamic Revolution Teach-in.” She emphasized the success of Iran’s military industry, stating that it has significantly impacted the U.S. empire’s ability to exert its influence. “We need to dismantle the empire by any means necessary,” she declared passionately.
Specializing in anticolonial studies, Mullin was dismissed from her position at the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2025 after eight years, following her involvement in a protest encampment at the City College of New York in April 2024. Although she contested her termination and was later reinstated, her status with CUNY remains unclear as she was not listed on the faculty pages and possibly did not teach classes during the spring semester. Mullin also serves as a professor at The New School.
Mullin, who specializes in teaching anticolonialism, was fired by CUNY in 2025 after eight years on the job.
The termination came after she led an April 2024 encampment at the City College of New York. She fought the move and was reinstated this year, though her name didn’t appear on CUNY faculty pages and it’s unclear if she taught any classes there this spring semester. She also teaches at The New School.
Speaking to more than two-dozen comrades Wednesday evening, she painted Iran’s murderous Islamic regime in a socialist light to justify funding its military — while making zero mention of the riches Iran’s ruling elite has famously amassed through the control of oil and state-owned resources.
“I’d love to see a world with no militaries. But we can’t have peace without justice,” she said. “And so, a state like Iran needs to divert a significant portion of its surplus into military industrialization, so it can defend its workers.”
“The state itself is working on behalf of the working class,” she insisted.
“We can talk about the Epstein class and the depravity of the ruling class today, which knows no limits on violence. So, I’m sorry, I defend the IRGC,” she proclaimed tearfully. “I defend the incredible role the Iranian state has done to defend the working class.”
“This is a working-class war,” she claimed.
The DSA members ate it right up.
“This is excellent,” raved DSA leader Cass Roach, telling Mullin she can go past her allotted time. “Incredible!” gushed another.
“Frankly, people are scared to be seen as sympathetic to the Iranian government, it’s something that’s really holding us back,” whined Roach.
“It doesn’t matter what your opinions might be on the Iranian government or on particular policies, we are living in the heart of empire and our goal is to disrupt this war machine by — I’m glad we’re not recording right now — but I’ll just say here, by any means necessary,” he declared.
“That is our role. Our role is not to nitpick and to implement these types of purity tests.”
Mullin also incredulously praised the repressive and bloodthirsty Iranian regime for its “strong gender inclusion” — failing to mention women face death by hanging if they leave the house without being fully covered — and for “prioritizing human life,” despite an estimated more than 36,000 protestors killed since late December.
“It is grotesque that a professor at a New York university is standing in front of an American political organization to launder the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a US-designated terrorist organization with American and Iranian blood on its hands,” lambasted Andrew Ghalili, an Iranian-American who serves as Policy Director at the National Union for Democracy in Iran.
“Anyone who poses as a defender of human rights while running interference for the IRGC is either dangerously ignorant of who its victims are or does not care, because the IRGC is the single greatest violator of Iranians’ human rights,” he told The Post.
“Calling that apparatus ‘self-defense’ and suggesting it deserves funding is a moral disgrace.”
Mullin — who has worked with the Samidoun network, a sham charity which the State Department has said acts as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization — wrote a “red paper” in May titled “The Multiple Fronts of Iranian Anti-Imperialism.”
The New School and CUNY didn’t immediately answer The Post’s questions on Mullin’s working status, or her embrace of the IRGC. She and the DSA did not return a request for comment.
