“The Iranians, always they have shown readiness,” said Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat who worked on engaging the Saudis. “During the late King Abdullah’s era, Riyadh was ready to hear what the Iranians say, but no more in [current King] Salman’s era.”
“Inside The Real (And Really Secret) Middle East Peace Process,” The Huffington Post, December 8, 2017.
“One of President Obama’s policies reversed by the Trump administration is the nuclear agreement with Iran, which President Trump refused to recertify, saying it was not in America’s interest. Thursday evening at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering will be part of a discussion on U.S.-Iran relations and the nuclear deal, which will also include former ambassador and diplomat for Iran and now Princeton University scholar Seyed Hossein Mousavian.”
“Former Iranian Diplomat To Discuss Nuclear Deal At Hamilton College,” Brian Shields, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, November 29, 2017.
“It appears there is a new scenario being drawn for Iran,” said Hossein Mousavian, a former spokesman for Iran’s team of nuclear negotiators and a Middle East security analyst at Princeton University. The emerging alliance “needs to be taken seriously and it will have consequences,” he said. “We need to think of ways to improve relations” with the Saudis.
“Iran Sees Its Rivals Uniting as Israel Talks Up Saudi Ties,” Ladane Nasseri and Marc Champion, Bloomberg, November 23, 2017.
Trump’s Decertification of the JCPOA
“Ex Iran Ambassador Dr. Hossein Mousavian: US Cancellation of Iran Nuclear Deal,” Going Global with David Delgado, October 30, 2017.
MSNBC Interview: Nuclear Deal Fallout
“Nuclear Deal Fallout,” MSNBC, October 15, 2017.
BBC Interview: Trump’s Iran Policy
Full Interview (begins at 17:45)
“California fires, veterans in Puerto Rico, Johnny Clegg’s last tour,” PRI’s the World, October 12, 2017.
“The United States and Iran reverted to their habitual game of chicken, threatening to abandon the nuclear deal and counting on the adversary to be the first to do that. While open hostility has been the most typical feature of their relationship over the past four decades, could it lead to anything extraordinary this time around? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator for Iran and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University.”
“Unclear on nuclear? Seyed Hossein Mousavian, nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University,” RT, October 19, 2017.
“The current U.S. administration policies would contribute to more instability and disorder in the Middle East and beyond,” says Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a senior negotiator in the Iran nuclear issue during the administration of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, and now a Princeton University visiting research scholar.
“Here’s How Trump is Dragging the U.S. to the Brink of War,” Massoud Hayoun, Pacific Standard, October 13, 2017.
Interview: Trump and the Iran Deal
Full Interview (starts at 4m30s)
“Trump and the Iran Deal,” NOS Public Broadcasting, October 13, 2017.
Here is how Hossein Mousavian, Tehran’s former Ambassador to the US, explains Iran’s policy: After the revolution, Iran was invaded by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and, for much of the past decade, chaos on its thousands of miles of borders with Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – all factors that have compelled it to play a regional role.
“Consequences of nixing the Iran deal,” The Arab Daily News, Ghassan Michel Rubeiz, October 11, 2017.
