Some other significant factors were overshadowed earlier this spring, when the internet primarily focused on the massive campus demonstrations over Gaza.
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The Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists ( AAIRIA ), a group of Iranian-American anti-Ayatollah regime activists and exiles, held one of these largely unreported gatherings on April 26. About 70 AAIRA members from the organization attended the protest outside Princeton University’s campus over the hiring of a questionable Iranian academic.
Former Iranian diplomat Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a senior fellow in Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs ‘ ( SPIA ) Program on Science and Global Security, was chosen as Princeton’s Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist in 2016. Mussavian was hired by the Ivy League school for the first time in 2009 after receiving a US immigration from the Obama management.
The protest demanded that Mousavian be fired because he allegedly participated in the killings of at least 23 exiled social rebels while serving as Iran’s adviser to Germany in the 1990s. They online petitioned for his detention from the school.
After prosecutors had a direct link between Mousavian and another official employees to the 1992 crime of four Kurdish dissidents at a Berlin cafe, the German government ordered him to leave the country in 1997. Most users of the European Union at the time were forced to recall their ambassadors from Tehran by the court’s decision.
Some of the protest at the Princeton march were members of the original diplomat’s family who had been killed by the former minister.
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Mousavian had previously held jobs in high positions before joining Princeton after returning from Germany to Iran. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the head of the Iranian nuclear negotiations team’s foreign relations committee and afterwards served as Tehran’s National Security Council’s foreign relations committee’s chief official. He remains an open admirer of Hamas and Hezbollah, two U. S. designated criminal companies, and he has been linked to Tehran’s attempts to assassinate the acclaimed writer, Salman Rushdie.
Last September, Mousavian was invited to an event at Princeton held by the U. S. Strategic Command, which is in charge of the world’s nuclear barrier. That, he boldly bragged to his guests about his administration’s attempts to assassinate American leaders, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
” Mousavian’s disturbing history of association with condition- sponsored violence and human rights abuses needs decisive action from Princeton University’s management”, Lawdan Bazargan, one of the leaders at AAIRA and a former political slave, told the NY Post in a March 2024 meeting.
In the midst of the September 7 attacks, Bazargan and her colleagues successfully led a previous three-year campaign to remove Mousavian from Oberlin College’s instructors. The partnership was able to persuade Ohio authorities to launch an antisemitic investigation into Oberlin’s management while persuading students to ban all classes that Mousavian taught.
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” Next without any reason, Oberlin put Mousavian on lasting left in November, forced him to open his office, and removed his name from their site, which is great”, Barzagan told PJ Media.
In November 2023, the contentious former minister denied being an Iranian representative during his 15 years at Princeton and made an attempt to defend himself in front of Princeton Alumni Weekly.
According to Mousavian, an educational,” I’ve used every opportunity I have had to come up with a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis, as well as speech and cooperation with other nations like Saudi Arabia,” adding that he was no longer a popular figure in Iran as a result of his disagreement with the government.
He claimed that he had not been able to travel to Iran since June 2021 and that he had not been engaged in business with any other Iranian government since the Egyptian court sentenced him to spying for European intelligence services.
A committee of the U.S. Congressional Committee confirmed that Mousavian is truly free to go back to Iran, but that his recent partnership with Tehran has remained “unclear.” Despite allegations of effective assassination and his available support for terrorism, the U.S. House of Representatives has been looking into why the former Persian established was hired by the school.
According to a letter signed by 45 members of Congress to Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber,” Mousavian’s place on the university of Princeton for the past 15 times… raises major concerns about the impact of foreign angry regimes on British institutions.”
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In the email, Eisgruber was asked if he had ever had any conversations with Iranian authorities before hiring Mousavian and if he had ever been in touch with them.
Additionally, Congress inquired about Mousavian’s training credentials, his teaching income, and whether or not he was given any funding or gifts.
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” This man represents a regime that bans its own university students from continuing higher education”, Banafsheh Zand, an Iranian American journalist, told PJ Media.  ,
” Now, given all the articles that have been published in major international media and blaring attention]that ] Mr. Mousavian’s presence at Princeton has gotten over the past 15 years”,  , Zand added, “one would think Princeton’s senior officers and board of directors would come to their senses and ask him to leave. But they have n’t and do not seem to want to! The dishonesty and corruption is blaring”, Zand added.
