[1] From 1965 to 1979 during the Pahlavi era, Hunter served as a diplomat in the Iranian ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She was guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and research fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.
[1] Hunter has lectured widely in the United States and the Middle East amongst others and has extensive media experience.
[2] Her research also put emphasis on how the ruling establishment in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku are anxious about a feasible irredentist counter-claim by Iran and its Azeri elites on the Republic of Azerbaijan, and how they fear that ethnic nationalist irredentism may boomerang back at them.
[3] According to Hunter, the existence of pro-Iranian sentiments among the inhabitants of the southern parts of the Azerbaijan Republic serve as evidence that concerns of this kind are perhaps legitimate.