{"id":2015859,"date":"2023-08-29T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-us-leaders\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:37:29","slug":"us-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-us-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-us-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"US Strategic Command welcomes ex-Iranian official boasting about attempts to kill US leaders."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fus-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-us-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=2015859&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 \u2062Symposium<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>(Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>U.S. \u2063military leaders earlier this \u2062month \u2063hosted a former \u2064top Iranian official who \u200dcame under fire last year for bragging about\u2062 the hardline\u2063 regime\u2019s efforts \u2063to assassinate American leaders.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Strategic\u2062 Command (STRATCOM)\u200c tapped Hussein \u2064Mousavian, \u200ca \u200bformer member of Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-strategic-command-hosts-former-iranian-official-who-bragged-about-efforts-to-assassinate-us-leaders\/\" title=\"US Strategic Command welcomes ex-Iranian official boasting about attempts to kill US leaders.\">nuclear\u200d negotiating team<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/sgs.princeton.edu\/team\/seyed-hossein-mousavian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">works<\/a> as a Middle East security and nuclear policy \u200cspecialist at Princeton \u200bUniversity, to headline \u2063its 2023 Deterrence Symposium, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stratcomds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-level powwow<\/a> that brought the former Iranian official shoulder-to-shoulder with America\u2019s <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>Mousavian\u2019s appearance at the mid-August gathering, which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XiyueWang9\/status\/1696565979755708809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came \u200bto light on \u2062Monday<\/a> after STRATCOM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QTz9TqmlcQQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted\u2063 a video<\/a> of the event, drew criticism\u2062 from former U.S. officials and veteran Iran analysts \u200bwho questioned why America\u2019s \u2063premier military outfit would host someone \u2062who maintains close ties to the\u2064 Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Mousavian helped lead the murderous Iranian\u200b regime\u2019s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bolton-taliban-may-seize-nuclear-weapons-from-pakistan-says-pakistani-military-has-radical-islamists-in-its-ranks\/\" title=\"Bolton: Taliban may seize Nuclear Weapons from Pakistan, says Pakistani military has radical Islamists in its ranks\">obtain nuclear weapons<\/a> so it \u2064could threaten \u200cthe United States and our allies with annihilation,&#8221;<\/strong> \u200c said Rep.\u2063 Jim Banks, a member \u2063of the House Armed Services Committee. <strong>&#8220;Now he\u2019s in \u200dsemi-retirement at \u200cPrinceton \u200cas a\u2064 full-time propagandist \u2062for the IRGC. Inviting him\u200d to spread lies at a U.S. military seminar \u2062is insanity.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The decision to invite former Iranian \u2062ambassador Mousavian to speak to \u200dSTRATCOM is unimaginably \u2062foolish,&#8221;<\/strong> \u200bGabriel Noronha,\u200c a former \u200dIran adviser at the State Department, told\u2064 the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. <strong>&#8220;He is\u200c a pawn \u200band propaganda \u200bagent of the Iranian regime, \u2064which explains why\u200c he \u2062is \u200dallowed to \u200btravel back to Iran.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mousavian, Noronha \u2064said, remains close with the \u2064Iranian regime, with former foreign minister Javad\u2064 Zarif \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mei.edu\/publications\/future-javad-zarif-foreign-asset-waiting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stating<\/a> in \u200b2016\u200d that the former\u200c ambassador &#8220;continues to work hard&#8221; for Tehran\u2019s\u200b interests while working at \u200dPrinceton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Congress should investigate the decision-making \u200bprocess that led \u2064to this\u2062 entirely inappropriate speaking invitation,&#8221;<\/strong> \u200cNoronha said.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian\u2019s perch at \u200cPrinceton has long \u2063irked Iranian dissidents due to his alleged role in <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.\">human rights \u2062crimes<\/a> during his \u2062time\u200d as Iran\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavian last year\u200d appeared to gloat \u200babout Iran\u2019s death threats against \u2062former Trump administration \u2063officials, including Secretary of \u200dState Mike Pompeo and his deputy, Brian Hook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I went to America and an American told me that Brian Hook\u2019s wife can\u2019t\u200b sleep, she cries and \u2063trembles, she\u2064 told Brian, \u2018They\u2019ll kill\u200b you,\u2019 since Hook\u2064 was a partner \u200din the death of Haj Qassem [Soleimani], that\u2019s how much they were \u200ctrembling,&#8221;<\/strong> Mousavian was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/princeton-official-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy\/\">quoted as saying<\/a> \u200cin \u2063a documentary film\u200d produced by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy groups like\u200d United Against a Nuclear Iran blasted Mousavian for sounding &#8220;gleeful&#8221; about the threats Iran poses to former American officials.<\/p>\n<p>STRATCOM did not immediately respond to a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza Nader, a veteran Iran scholar based in Washington,\u2062 D.C., said\u2064 it is <strong>&#8220;outrageous and\u200b dangerous that\u200b U.S.\u2062 STRATCOM\u200b invited a former regime official \u200cconnected to the \u2064assassination\u200b of Iranian dissidents to \u2063be\u2063 a speaker at \u2062its symposium, providing him access \u200cto\u200b America\u2019s \u2062most senior military officials.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Princeton\u200d also \u2063recently drew \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/bidens-scandal-plagued-iran-envoy-lands-ivy-league-gigs-amid-fbi-investigation\/\">scrutiny<\/a> for hiring U.S. Iran envoy\u200c Robert\u200c Malley,\u200b who is currently\u2063 the \u2063subject of an\u200d FBI investigation for his alleged mishandling of classified information. Malley has\u200c been suspended from his State Department duties\u200d as the probe\u2064 continues.<\/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":2015860,"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-2015859","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\/2015859","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=2015859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}