{"id":1201758,"date":"2022-01-09T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201758"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:04:29","slug":"princeton-faculty-member-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/princeton-faculty-member-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Faculty Member Brags About Death Threats Against Trump Admin Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprinceton-faculty-member-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-665319836.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A former Iranian official who is a faculty member at Princeton University recently bragged in an interview about how his hardline government\u2019s death threats against a former top Trump administration official had him and his family &#8220;trembling&#8221; with fear.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran\u2019s nuclear negotiating team who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sgs.princeton.edu\/team\/seyed-hossein-mousavian\">works<\/a>&nbsp;as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, said in a recent interview that the Iranian regime\u2019s threats to murder Brian Hook, the Trump administration\u2019s special envoy for Iran, have heavily impacted Hook\u2019s family life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went to America and an American told me that Brian Hook\u2019s wife can\u2019t sleep, she cries and trembles, she told Brian, \u2018They\u2019ll kill you,\u2019 since Hook was a partner in the death of Haj Qassem [Soleimani], that\u2019s how much they were trembling,&#8221; Mousavian said, referring to Iran\u2019s vow to kill Hook for his role in the Trump administration\u2019s drone strike that killed Iranian terror leader Soleimani two years ago. Mousavian\u2019s comments were made in a documentary produced and released this month by a company tied to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-690303\">72 hours<\/a><\/em>. His Farsi language remarks were independently translated for the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian\u2019s comments have renewed focus on his employment at Princeton, which Iranian dissidents and activists have long criticized due to the former official\u2019s alleged role in Iranian human rights abuses. Mousavian, who regularly travels between Iran and the United States, has been working at Princeton since 2009 and has served in senior roles for the Iranian regime. Mousavian\u2019s knowledge about Iran\u2019s threats toward Hook, which the U.S. government has taken very seriously, according to sources familiar with the situation, demonstrates how Tehran has been able to mainstream its allies into prominent positions at U.S. universities and other American outposts, such as D.C.-based think tanks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s simply dangerous for any university to employ Mousavian, as he has directly celebrated death threats against Brian Hook and has been implicated in the death of Iranian dissidents in the 1990s,&#8221; Alireza Nader, a veteran Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think-tank, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>United Against a Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group critical of the Iranian regime, called on Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber to fire Mousavian &#8220;from any association or affiliation with Princeton without delay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian &#8220;sounded gleeful over the fact that American citizens and their families were concerned by death threats received from supporters of the Iranian regime,&#8221; former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) and former U.S. ambassador Mark Wallace, UANI\u2019s leaders, said in a statement. They also called Mousavian\u2019s role at Princeton a &#8220;stain on the university\u2019s reputation and credibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time in which the U.S. intelligence community&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/links.uaninews.com\/u\/click?_t=4fde6007320f41eea26d2373cb3e125a&amp;_m=4403c028b4bc46af84ad995c9290ee0c&amp;_e=YX7cBUJj3kQRgtzu-gInKj7h9vuOQazpgbvEv8V-nZuKH0nuYYRFe5sGEL8g-oyC3N2LvOmx4HxQ0k9GOewanDXyrg6A1rpLP5W93-3h80YvqMqcPtVOiZtiiN_bwXthDKRCzggGqpwsyJQrLSlUZ10N8IJkPr5t1Lz47pPLjidCQC3BEdam7tO9m3gQGKLf8C-N0VEW_McXjGZNSaoTdtgAPO3KKCx4a878rZtQT8GX0T8ylngGl7XM56fGPBjmAjL5-GcME8Jdh4AapsLzzZjCtcREzBLNP4SjeFGRUdV7_pptOvyHbsU_SUFx8RsCX6346zts7LaecWbffV0OMA%3D%3D\">assesses<\/a> that the Islamic Republic is working to develop networks for terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland, there should be no room at Princeton or any other U.S. institution for Ambassador Mousavian,&#8221; Lieberman and Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We condemn any threats against U.S. officials, former U.S. officials, or U.S. citizens,&#8221; a State Department spokesman added in response to a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton did not respond to <em>Free Beacon<\/em> requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian, in an email to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, said he was merely discussing the realities of the threat. Soleimani\u2019s assassination, he added, &#8220;was a clear violation of international laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During past decades, the U.S. and Iranian official threatened each other thousands of times,&#8221; Mousavian said. &#8220;Academics and analysts have always quoted the threat statements and analyzed.&nbsp; In an interview, I mentioned that such threats, cause harms to families which is a fact. The reality is that the assassination of General Soleimani in Baghdad was a clear violation of international laws since he was in an official visit invited by Iraqi prime minister to discuss fight on terror and improvement of Iran-Saudi relations. I always have reiterated that the U.S. and Iran should avoid threatening and the use of force and resolve their dispute through diplomacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian attended Soleimani\u2019s funeral and <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/middle-east-watch\/trump-has-recklessly-dragged-persian-gulf-brink-war-117181?amp\">maintained<\/a> in an opinion piece at the time that the murdered military leader was not a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian was also named in a recent lawsuit against Princeton brought by Xiyue Wang, a historian at the school who was kidnapped by Iran and held in its notorious Evin prison for three years until he was freed by the Trump administration in 2019, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/historian-says-princeton-left-him-to-rot-in-iranian-prison\/\"><em>Free Beacon<\/em> first reported<\/a>&nbsp;in December. Wang\u2019s lawsuit alleges that Princeton left him to &#8220;rot&#8221; in Iran as the school sought to maintain its relationship with the hardline regime. Wang maintains Princeton relied on the advice of &#8220;pro-regime activists and academics,&#8221; including Mousavian, in downplaying his kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything Princeton did and abstained from doing was centered around absolving its institutional responsibility, protecting its institutional reputation, and maintaining its political relations with Iran,&#8221; the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian is not the only former top Iranian official working at an American University.<\/p>\n<p>Oberlin College has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/iranian-dissidents-demand-oberlin-terminate-professor-accused-of-war-crimes\/\">come under fire<\/a>&nbsp;from the Iranian dissident community for employing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oberlin.edu\/mohammad-jafar-mahallati\">Mohammad Jafar Mahallati<\/a>, a religion professor and Nancy Schrom Dye chair in Middle East and North African studies. Mahallati served as Iran\u2019s ambassador to the U.N. in the late 1980s, when Iran killed thousands of dissidents over a span of several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Iranian official who is a faculty member at Princeton University recently bragged in an interview about how his hardline government\u2019s death threats against a former top Trump administration &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}