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EXCLUSIVE: The influential Home Committee of Schooling and the Workforce on Thursday launched an investigation into the position of a former Iranian official, 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 members despatched a letter to Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber with detailed questions concerning the affect of the Islamic Republic of Iran through Mousavian’s actions on 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, informed Fox Information Digital “Larger training has bowed right down to the unconventional left and enemies of America for much too lengthy, and the mere truth {that a} former member of the Iranian regime is given a platform at Princeton is proof.”
“Let’s be clear. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not be our buddy. They’re a serious adversary, a state sponsor of terrorism, and a destabilizing drive within the Center East that sympathizes with Hamas. We can not let a radical Iranian manipulate younger American minds, and it’s properly previous time we do one thing about it,” McClain charged.
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Blair Corridor on the campus of Princeton College (John Greim/LightRocket through Getty Pictures)
Mousavian’s conduct 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 appeared in a tribute to Soleimani in a 2022 Iran TV program. Mousavian stated on Iranian TV that an American informed him, “The spouse of Brian Hook couldn’t 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 taken out of context,” Mousavian informed Fox Information Digital. “Iranian TV by no means broadcast the interview with me. It simply broadcasted the 7-10 seconds about Brian Hook’s household. I’ve all the time opposed assassinations and threats of assassination towards each Iranian and U.S. nationals”.
The U.S. navy assassinated Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Drive of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp, in January 2020 in Iraq for his alleged position in overseeing the murders of greater than 600 American navy personnel within the Center East.
Protesters maintain up a picture of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian commander, throughout an indication following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed him, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 3, 2020. (Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
“When President Trump had Basic Soleimani assassinated, I used to be in Iran to go to my mom who was hospitalized,” Mousavian informed Fox Information Digital. “As a researcher, I attended the funeral of Basic Soleimani to see the response to this assassination. Seven million attended Soleimani’s funeral in Tehran and 20 million in different cities in whole. This was clear proof of Basic Soleimani’s recognition.”
When Fox Information Digital requested Mousavian if he agrees with the U.S. authorities’s classification of the IRGC, together with its Qods drive, as a international terrorist group, Mousavian stated, “The U.S. CENTCOM [United States Central Command] and the Iranian Qods Military have designated one another as terrorist group. I feel quite than these infinite accusations, they should sit and discuss and resolve their variations by way of peaceable means.”
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, speaks to journalists on the Worldwide Atomic Power Company November 29, 2004, in Vienna. (Robert Newald/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Fox Information Digital just lately reported on the position of the IRGC and Soleimani within the preliminary planning to assist the terrorist motion Hamas bloodbath about 1,200 folks, together with Individuals, Oct. 7 in southern Israel.
“People who’re aligned with malignant regimes proceed to permeate America’s postsecondary training system,” Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who chairs the Schooling and the Workforce Committee, stated.
“Seyed Hossein Mousavian’s refuge at Princeton for 15 years is a textbook instance. These people pose a grave menace to America’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 show the blatant corruption and affect peddling that has change into far too commonplace.”
Mousavian focuses on Center East safety and nuclear coverage.
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To the shock of some in Congress, STRATCOM hosted Mousavian as a speaker in August 2023.
In keeping with the congressional letter, Mousavian’s look at the STRATCOM symposium “involved members of the Armed Companies Committees of each the Home and the Senate. Moreover, features of this situation hassle us as members of the Home Committee on Schooling and the Workforce.”
When requested if STRATCOM responded to considerations about Mousavian, Joshua Kelsey, chief of media operations for United States Strategic Command, informed Fox Information Digital, “I can verify Gen. Cotton responded to the Congressional letter on September 27, which is official correspondence because it went on to Congress … We’ve got nothing extra so as to add to the response.”
Mousavian informed Fox Information Digital, “My discuss on the U.S. Strategic Command was all about peace within the Center East and why the U.S. ought to keep away from wars and deal with peace and cooperation.”
Throughout Mousavian’s tenure as Iran’s ambassador to Germany, he was in control of the embassy {that a} German court docket discovered “served because the ‘headquarters’ for the planning of the 1992 assassination of 4 Iranian dissidents on the Greek restaurant Mykonos in Berlin.”
“This accusation is an enormous lie,” the previous ambassador stated. “The 398-page verdict is printed, and everybody can have entry to it. The Berlin court docket verdict doesn’t include any direct or oblique allegations towards me. German authorities by no means compelled me to go away the nation. … I’ve been a frequent customer to Germany.”
A mural of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme chief, is painted subsequent to a smaller one in every of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Motahari Road March 8, 2020, in Tehran, Iran. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Pictures)
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In keeping with media experiences, after a Berlin court docket dominated in 1997 that Iran’s regime ordered the assassination of the 4 Iranian dissidents, three of whom had been Kurds, the German authorities requested that Mousavian be faraway from his submit.
“My work is simply an instructional work, and I’ve nothing to do with the U.S. or the Iranian or some other authorities,” Mousavian informed Fox Information Digital. “I used to be arrested in 2007 and in the end disadvantaged from diplomatic work. So, I retired from the Iranian international ministry 13 years in the past and, since then, I’ve not been engaged with any authorities, 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)
Though he was arrested by the regime, the congressional letter forged doubt on Mousavian’s alleged separation from it.
“Regardless of his supposed disaffiliation with the Iranian authorities, Mousavian’s means to journey freely to america and act as an unofficial authorities consultant whereas discussing U.S.-Iranian ties has left his relationship with the Iranian authorities unclear,” the Republicans lawmakers’ letter stated.
“Different Iranian regime officers verify that, whereas 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 towards him [Mousavian],’ that Mousavian ‘continued to, and continues to, work arduous,’ for Iran, and that he ‘believes in, and is totally tied to, the system of the Islamic Republic and [sic] Iran.”’
Nassau Corridor, the oldest Constructing at Princeton College, in Princeton, N.J. (Schooling Pictures/Common Pictures Group through Getty Pictures)
“Campus antisemitism has reached disaster proportions,” Rep. Banks informed Fox Information Digital. “Iran is a number one state booster of antisemitism in addition to the main state sponsor of terror, and Home Republicans have an obligation to analyze malign Iranian affect at U.S. universities.”
Banks continued, “Mr. Mousavian is a longtime Iranian propagandist who solely is aware of tips on how to train anti-Israel, antisemitic lies. Princeton ought to instantly lower ties with Mr. Mousavian and the opposite Iran apologist on their payroll, Rob Malley, Joe Biden’s disgraced former envoy who’s presently below federal investigation for mishandling labeled info.”
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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Whereas a July unclassified U.S. Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence report stated “Iran will not be presently enterprise the important thing nuclear weapons-development actions that will be mandatory to provide a testable nuclear system,” a batch of public European intelligence experiences from 2023 say Iran’s regime has an energetic atomic weapons program.
Princeton College didn’t reply to quite a few Fox Information Digital e mail and phone press queries.
