{"id":138497,"date":"2023-12-07T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=138497"},"modified":"2023-12-06T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T05:27:09","slug":"princeton-professor-investigated-by-house-republicans-for-suspected-ties-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/princeton-professor-investigated-by-house-republicans-for-suspected-ties-to-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton professor investigated by House Republicans for suspected ties to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor calls claims ‘manufactured fake stories created by certain lobbies in Washington, which are interested in dragging the US to attack Iran’<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A Princeton University professor suspected of advancing Iranian state interests is under investigation by the House Education and the Workforce committee.<\/p>\n

Professor Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a Middle Eastern nuclear and security policy specialist who has taught at Princeton for 13 years, denies he has any ties to the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not been able to go to Iran since June 2021 and I have not been engaged with any government including the government of Iran since the Iranian court convicted me in 2008,\u201d Mousavian told The College Fix<\/em> via email.<\/p>\n

But 16 Republican members of the House committee sent a letter<\/a> to Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber in mid-November outlining their concern regarding Mousavian\u2019s possible projection of \u201cforeign hostile regimes on American institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPrior to coming to the U.S. in 2009, Mousavian worked for the Iranian regime his entire professional life,\u201d the letter stated. \u201c…Despite his supposed disaffiliation with the Iranian government, Mousavian\u2019s ability to travel freely to the United States and act as an unofficial government representative while discussing U.S.-Iranian ties has left his relationship with the Iranian government unclear.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter also mentions that the scholar served as Iran\u2019s ambassador to Germany, where he oversaw the same embassy that a German court found served as the \u201c\u2018headquarters\u2019 for the planning of the 1992 assassination of four Iranian dissidents at the Greek restaurant Mykonos in Berlin,\u2019\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n

In response, Mousavian told The College Fix<\/em> that \u201cAny direct or indirect allegations posed against me in regards to the Mykonos assassinations in Berlin are lies.\u201d An Iranian court convicted Mousavian in 2008 for suspected espionage and he left Iran in 2009, he said.<\/p>\n

Mousavian added in his email that efforts made to push false narratives regarding his professional work as an academic are \u201cmanufactured fake stories created by certain lobbies in Washington, which are interested in dragging the US to attack Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past two decades, as an academic, I\u2019ve used every opportunity to propose a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis and dialogue and engagement between Iran and the United States,\u201d he said. \u201cAll my books, articles, speeches and interviews during 13 years working at Princeton University are about peace, security, stability and opposing wars and warmongering.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Education and the Workforce has launched an investigation into @Princeton<\/a>'s hiring of #Iran<\/a> regime's Hossein Mousavian, and is demanding answers from Princeton. https:\/\/t.co\/jy88LNUueH<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/RtAdKHIxhT<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) November 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n