{"id":2015727,"date":"2023-08-29T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-u-s-leaders\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:07:42","slug":"u-s-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-u-s-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-u-s-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iranian official, boasting about attempts to kill American leaders, invited by U.S. Strategic Command."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fu-s-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-u-s-leaders%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=2015727&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<blockquote>\n<h2>Hussein Mousavian headlined STRATCOM&#8217;s Deterrence Symposium<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>(Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Prepare to be shocked! U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-u-s-leaders\/\" title=\"Former Iranian official, boasting about attempts to kill American leaders, invited by U.S. Strategic Command.\">military leaders recently \u2062welcomed<\/a> a\u2064 controversial guest to their prestigious event. Hussein Mousavian, a former member\u200b of Iran&#8217;s nuclear negotiating \u2063team \u2063and current Middle East security and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/princeton-faculty-member-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy\/\" title=\"Princeton Faculty Member Brags About Death Threats Against Trump Admin Envoy\">nuclear policy specialist<\/a> at Princeton University, was chosen by U.S.\u2062 Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to headline its 2023 Deterrence Symposium. This high-level \u200dgathering brought Mousavian face-to-face with America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vets-battle-critical-race-theory-invasion-of-military\/\" title=\"Vets Battle Critical Race Theory Invasion of Military\">top military brass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news of Mousavian&#8217;s appearance \u2062at \u200bthe symposium, \u200dwhich was revealed\u200c after STRATCOM shared a\u2063 video of the event, has sparked criticism from former U.S. officials and Iran experts. They \u2063question\u200d why the leading military organization in the U.S. would host someone\u2063 with close ties to the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to invite former Iranian ambassador Mousavian to speak to STRATCOM \u200bis unimaginably \u200bfoolish,&#8221; said Gabriel Noronha, a former Iran adviser\u200c at the \u2062State Department. &#8220;He is a pawn and propaganda agent of the Iranian regime, which explains why he is allowed to travel back to Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Noronha pointed out that \u2064Mousavian remains closely connected to\u200c the Iranian regime, with former foreign \u2064minister Javad Zarif stating in 2016 that \u2062Mousavian &#8220;continues to \u200bwork hard&#8221; for Tehran&#8217;s interests \u200bwhile at Princeton. Noronha called \u200dfor a congressional investigation into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/listen-elon-musk-presses-robinhood-ceo-about-gamestop-fiasco-restricted-trading\/\" title=\"LISTEN: Elon Musk Presses Robinhood CEO About GameStop Fiasco, Restricted Trading\">decision-making process<\/a> that led \u200dto this inappropriate invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian&#8217;s presence at Princeton has long been\u200d a source of \u200bconcern for\u200c Iranian\u200d dissidents due to his alleged involvement in human rights \u200dcrimes during his \u200dtime as Iran&#8217;s ambassador. Furthermore, last year, Mousavian seemed to revel in Iran&#8217;s death threats against \u200dformer Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his deputy, Brian Hook.<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy \u2063groups like United Against\u200b a Nuclear Iran have criticized Mousavian for\u200b his apparent delight\u2062 in\u2062 the \u200dthreats\u200b posed by Iran to\u2064 former American officials. It \u200cremains to be seen how STRATCOM will respond to these concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Nader, a veteran\u200c Iran scholar based in\u200d Washington, D.C., expressed outrage and concern over \u200bthe invitation, stating that it\u200d is &#8220;outrageous and\u2062 dangerous&#8221; for U.S. STRATCOM to invite a former regime official connected to the assassination of Iranian dissidents \u200bto speak at its symposium, granting him access to America&#8217;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-senate-republicans-demand-hearings-on-afghanistan-sworn-testimony-from-secretary-lloyd-austin-general-mark-milley\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans Demand Hearings On Afghanistan, Sworn Testimony From Secretary Lloyd Austin, General Mark Milley\">senior military officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military leaders recently hosted Hussein Mousavian, a former Iranian official, at STRATCOM&#8217;s Deterrence Symposium. Mousavian faced criticism last year for boasting about the hardline regime&#8217;s attempts to assassinate American leaders. Despite his controversial past, Mousavian, a former member of Iran&#8217;s nuclear negotiating team, continues to work in this field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2015728,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/2015727","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=2015727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}