{"id":2002881,"date":"2023-08-16T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-scandal-plagued-iran-envoy-lands-ivy-league-gigs-amid-fbi-investigation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:02:02","slug":"bidens-scandal-plagued-iran-envoy-lands-ivy-league-gigs-amid-fbi-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-scandal-plagued-iran-envoy-lands-ivy-league-gigs-amid-fbi-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Scandal-Plagued Iran Envoy Lands Ivy League Gigs Amid FBI Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fbidens-scandal-plagued-iran-envoy-lands-ivy-league-gigs-amid-fbi-investigation%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=2002881&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>\n<p><h2>Princeton and Yale tap Robert Malley to teach classes after he allegedly mishandled classified info<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tRobert Malley (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Amid an FBI investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified information, embattled U.S. Iran envoy Robert Malley has been offered plum academic gigs at two Ivy League colleges.\t<\/p>\n<p>Princeton and Yale universities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spia.princeton.edu\/news\/senior-state-department-official-join-spia-faculty-visiting-professor-and-lecturer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/spia.princeton.edu\/news\/senior-state-department-official-join-spia-faculty-visiting-professor-and-lecturer&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670455000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3ulGZqBpLYXiDjE61OBxGB\">both<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jackson.yale.edu\/news\/eight-new-senior-fellows-join-jackson-school\/\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that Malley will join their staff while he is on extended leave from the State Department after his security clearance was yanked under mysterious circumstances. Neither school mentioned in their announcements that Malley is currently the focus of an FBI investigation.<\/p>\n<p>At Princeton, Malley will work alongside former Iranian official Seyed Mousavian, a nuclear policy specialist at the school who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/princeton-official-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/princeton-official-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0hsrYhAEjo5YxM5PZ-_PiO\">came under fire<\/a> last year for bragging about the Islamic Republic\u2019s efforts to assassinate former Trump administration official, Brian Hook, Malley\u2019s predecessor at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Malley\u2019s entry into the Ivy League is already raising eyebrows within Congress and Washington, D.C.\u2019s foreign policy community, particularly since the sidelined diplomat is still <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/senators-demand-independent-probe-into-rob-malley-security-clearance-fiasco\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/senators-demand-independent-probe-into-rob-malley-security-clearance-fiasco\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2MYTPduFs3S0Rayc-ySSQr\">entangled<\/a> in an unresolved FBI probe. Neither school responded to a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment on whether Malley&#8217;s alleged security lapses gave them pause.<\/p>\n<p>Malley will lend both schools his expertise after spending the past two years in the Biden administration working to secure a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal, efforts that included <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/gop-lawmakers-concerned-biden-removed-sanctions-to-appease-iran\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/gop-lawmakers-concerned-biden-removed-sanctions-to-appease-iran\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3VNhVIHqGhAVBRPlDKQJ2S\">waiving sanctions<\/a>\u00a0on Tehran to give it access to potentially billions in frozen funds.<\/p>\n<p>In its announcement, Yale <a href=\"https:\/\/jackson.yale.edu\/news\/eight-new-senior-fellows-join-jackson-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/jackson.yale.edu\/news\/eight-new-senior-fellows-join-jackson-school\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692299019012000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2a4w-93p8zcUAQ_QRPnFsq\">touted<\/a> Malley as one of the &#8220;leading practitioners&#8221; in the field of foreign affairs. While at Yale, Malley will teach courses and mentor students as a senior fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton said that Malley will &#8220;teach a graduate course this fall on foreign policy decision-making, and one to two undergraduate courses in the spring focused on some combination of diplomacy, negotiation, and foreign policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malley is just the latest Princeton scholar to come under fire for friendly ties to Iran\u2019s hardline regime.<\/p>\n<p>Former Iranian official Mousavian has been employed by the school for years, and has survived several\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyprincetonian.com\/article\/2022\/02\/mousavian-documentary-hook-xiyue-wang-princeton-iran\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailyprincetonian.com\/article\/2022\/02\/mousavian-documentary-hook-xiyue-wang-princeton-iran&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw09Pmo-o9DnxLqTOnmkwXzr\">pressure campaigns<\/a> to see him fired over his continued support for the hardline regime\u2019s pro-terrorism policies. Princeton is also facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyprincetonian.com\/article\/2022\/01\/xiyue-wang-princeton-graduate-student-lawsuit-iran\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailyprincetonian.com\/article\/2022\/01\/xiyue-wang-princeton-graduate-student-lawsuit-iran&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw263mNuKan6rHyzmcJYcsPg\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0from former graduate student Xiyue Wang, who alleges the school engaged in gross misconduct when it pushed him to study in Iran, where he ended up being unjustly arrested and detained for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Amaney Jamal, the dean of Princeton\u2019s School of Public and International Affairs, where Malley will be hosted, also has drawn scrutiny in recent months over her role as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amaney-jamal.scholar.princeton.edu\/graduate-students\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/amaney-jamal.scholar.princeton.edu\/graduate-students&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0XCWZWLB0U1GkLV81wphl6\">adviser<\/a>\u00a0to student Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli researcher who was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/05\/world\/middleeast\/iraq-iran-elizabeth-tsurkov.html\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/05\/world\/middleeast\/iraq-iran-elizabeth-tsurkov.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2yyTUJ4UxaKz8YhsxObbLN\">abducted<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year by an Iraqi militia group linked to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Malley will fit in really well at Princeton\u2014it&#8217;s a top notch program with other Iran experts like Seyed Mousavian, who oversaw assassinations of Iranian dissidents while the Islamic Republic&#8217;s Ambassador to Germany and who gloated on Iranian state TV about death threats to Malley&#8217;s predecessor, former Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook,&#8221; said Gabriel Noronha, a senior Iran adviser at the State Department in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Malley, Noronha added, &#8220;will have a strong ally in Dean Amaney Jamal, who refused to respond to multiple inquiries or take any corrective action when Mousavian broke Princeton&#8217;s code of conduct by laughing about these death threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers\u2014who have already launched multiple investigations into the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to stonewall probes into Malley\u2019s conduct\u2014expressed shock that a prominent school would hire a diplomat enmeshed in controversy.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apparently, the reward for selling out our nation to Iran and losing your security clearance is a cushy gig in the Ivy League,&#8221; Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a Princeton alumni,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1691611655476568293?s=46&#038;t=UiXXC2CvgsjnKo7BioI1HA\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1691611655476568293?s%3D46%26t%3DUiXXC2CvgsjnKo7BioI1HA&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692294670456000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2b9dtD27Bmo1Z4pdTje30c\">called<\/a>\u00a0the decision &#8220;pitiful&#8221; in a Tuesday tweet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton and Yale tap Robert Malley to teach classes after he allegedly mishandled classified info Robert Malley (Getty Images) Amid an FBI investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified information, embattled U.S. Iran envoy Robert Malley has been offered plum academic gigs at two Ivy League colleges. Princeton and Yale universities\u00a0both\u00a0announced Tuesday that Malley will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2002883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002881","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=2002881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}