EXCLUSIVE: The influential Space Committee of Schooling and the Staff on Thursday introduced an investigation into the position of a former Iranian reputable, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, at Princeton College. It’s claimed that he’s suspected of advancing the pursuits of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.
Twelve Republican committee contributors despatched a letter to Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber with detailed questions in regards to the affect of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the use of Mousavian’s actions at the campus of the New Jersey-based Ivy League establishment.
Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., who together with Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., spearheaded the letter to Princeton, advised Fox Information Virtual “Upper schooling has bowed right down to the novel left and enemies of The us for some distance too lengthy, and the mere reality {that a} former member of the Iranian regime is given a platform at Princeton is evidence.”
“Let’s be transparent. The Islamic Republic of Iran isn’t our good friend. They’re a big adversary, a state sponsor of terrorism, and a destabilizing pressure within the Center East that sympathizes with Hamas. We can not let a thorough Iranian manipulate younger American minds, and it’s way past time we do something positive about it,” McClain charged.
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Blair Corridor at the campus of Princeton College (John Greim/LightRocket by the use of Getty Pictures)
Mousavian’s behavior raised alarm bells from the NGO United Towards a Nuclear Iran after he attended the funeral of the U.S. and E.U.-designated Iranian regime terrorist Qassem Soleimani in Tehran in 2020 and gave the impression in a tribute to Soleimani in a 2022 Iran TV program. Mousavian stated on Iranian TV that an American advised him, “The spouse of Brian Hook may just no longer sleep for a couple of nights now” as a result of she feared her husband, Hook, the previous U.S. Iran envoy on the time of the assassination of Soleimani, would face retaliation from Tehran.”
“The ten-second clip from my two-hour interview with Iranian TV was once taken out of context,” Mousavian advised Fox Information Virtual. “Iranian TV by no means broadcast the interview with me. It simply broadcasted the 7-10 seconds about Brian Hook’s circle of relatives. I’ve at all times adversarial assassinations and threats of assassination in opposition to each Iranian and U.S. nationals”.
The U.S. army assassinated Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Drive of the Iranian Modern Guards Corp, in January 2020 in Iraq for his alleged position in overseeing the murders of greater than 600 American army workforce within the Center East.
Protesters dangle up a picture of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian commander, all through an indication following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed him, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 3, 2020. (Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg by the use of Getty Pictures)
“When President Trump had Normal Soleimani assassinated, I used to be in Iran to consult with my mom who was once hospitalized,” Mousavian advised Fox Information Virtual. “As a researcher, I attended the funeral of Normal Soleimani to look the response to this assassination. Seven million attended Soleimani’s funeral in Tehran and 20 million in different towns in overall. This was once transparent proof of Normal Soleimani’s reputation.”
When Fox Information Virtual requested Mousavian if he has the same opinion with the U.S. executive’s classification of the IRGC, together with its Qods pressure, as a international 15 may organization, Mousavian stated, “The U.S. CENTCOM [United States Central Command] and the Iranian Qods Military have designated every different as 15 may organization. I feel somewhat than those unending accusations, they want to take a seat and communicate and get to the bottom of their variations thru non violent way.”
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, speaks to reporters on the World Atomic Power Company November 29, 2004, in Vienna. (Robert Newald/AFP by the use of Getty Pictures)
Fox Information Virtual just lately reported at the position of the IRGC and Soleimani within the preliminary making plans to lend a hand the terrorist motion Hamas bloodbath about 1,200 other people, together with American citizens, Oct. 7 in southern Israel.
“People who are aligned with malignant regimes proceed to permeate The us’s postsecondary schooling gadget,” Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who chairs the Schooling and the Staff Committee, stated.
“Seyed Hossein Mousavian’s shelter at Princeton for 15 years is a textbook instance. Those folks pose a grave danger to The us’s nationwide safety posture, and they’re left to fester with none intervening motion or diligent oversight efforts. It’s time for some much-needed daylight to reveal the blatant corruption and affect peddling that has grow to be some distance too not unusual.”
Mousavian makes a speciality of Center East safety and nuclear coverage.
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To the wonder of a few in Congress, STRATCOM hosted Mousavian as a speaker in August 2023.
In line with the congressional letter, Mousavian’s look at the STRATCOM symposium “involved contributors of the Armed Products and services Committees of each the Space and the Senate. Moreover, facets of this factor bother us as contributors of the Space Committee on Schooling and the Staff.”
When requested if STRATCOM answered to considerations about Mousavian, Joshua Kelsey, leader of media operations for United States Strategic Command, advised Fox Information Virtual, “I will be able to verify Gen. Cotton answered to the Congressional letter on September 27, which is bureaucratic correspondence because it went immediately to Congress … We now have not anything further so as to add to the reaction.”
Mousavian advised Fox Information Virtual, “My communicate on the U.S. Strategic Command was once all about peace within the Center East and why the U.S. must keep away from wars and concentrate on peace and cooperation.”
All through Mousavian’s tenure as Iran’s ambassador to Germany, he was once accountable for the embassy {that a} German courtroom discovered “served because the ‘headquarters’ for the making plans of the 1992 assassination of 4 Iranian dissidents on the Greek eating place Mykonos in Berlin.”
“This accusation is a huge lie,” the previous ambassador stated. “The 398-page verdict is revealed, and everybody may have get entry to to it. The Berlin courtroom verdict does no longer comprise any direct or oblique allegations in opposition to me. German government by no means compelled me to depart the rustic. … I’ve been a widespread customer to Germany.”
A mural of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s very best chief, is painted subsequent to a smaller certainly one of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Motahari Boulevard March 8, 2020, in Tehran, Iran. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Pictures)
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In line with media reviews, after a Berlin courtroom dominated in 1997 that Iran’s regime ordered the assassination of the 4 Iranian dissidents, 3 of whom had been Kurds, the German executive asked that Mousavian be got rid of from his publish.
“My paintings is simply an educational paintings, and I’ve not anything to do with the U.S. or the Iranian or another executive,” Mousavian advised Fox Information Virtual. “I used to be arrested in 2007 and in the long run disadvantaged from diplomatic paintings. So, I retired from the Iranian international ministry 13 years in the past and, since then, I’ve no longer been engaged with any executive, together with the federal government of Iran.”
Former Iranian Overseas Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at a press convention in Tehran, Iran, in August 2019. (AP)
Despite the fact that he was once arrested by way of the regime, the congressional letter solid doubt on Mousavian’s alleged separation from it.
“Regardless of his intended disaffiliation with the Iranian executive, Mousavian’s talent to shuttle freely to america and act as an unofficial executive consultant whilst discussing U.S.-Iranian ties has left his dating with the Iranian executive unclear,” the Republicans lawmakers’ letter stated.
“Different Iranian regime officers verify that, whilst Mousavian left Iran, he didn’t stop to serve the regime. In a 2016 interview, then-Iranian Overseas Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated that he didn’t consider ‘the accusations of espionage in opposition to him [Mousavian],’ that Mousavian ‘endured to, and continues to, paintings onerous,’ for Iran, and that he ‘believes in, and is totally tied to, the gadget of the Islamic Republic and [sic] Iran.”’
Nassau Corridor, the oldest Construction at Princeton College, in Princeton, N.J. (Schooling Pictures/Common Pictures Team by the use of Getty Pictures)
“Campus antisemitism has reached disaster proportions,” Rep. Banks advised Fox Information Virtual. “Iran is a number one state booster of antisemitism in addition to the main state sponsor of terror, and Space Republicans have an obligation to analyze malign Iranian affect at U.S. universities.”
Banks endured, “Mr. Mousavian is an established Iranian propagandist who best is aware of learn how to educate anti-Israel, antisemitic lies. Princeton must in an instant reduce ties with Mr. Mousavian and the opposite Iran apologist on their payroll, Rob Malley, Joe Biden’s disgraced former envoy who’s lately below federal investigation for mishandling labeled knowledge.”
Mousavian countered that Banks has stated “Mousavian helped Iran to make nuclear bomb! He nonetheless doesn’t know that Iran doesn’t have nuclear bomb. His different statements are like that.”
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Whilst a July unclassified U.S. Administrative center of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence file stated “Iran isn’t lately endeavor the important thing nuclear weapons-development actions that will be important to provide a testable nuclear tool,” a batch of public Eu intelligence reviews from 2023 say Iran’s regime has an energetic atomic guns program.
Princeton College didn’t reply to a large number of Fox Information Virtual electronic mail and phone press queries.
