Interviews
Seyed Hossein Mousavian on Iranian President Rouhani’s election win
For more Rouhani’s election win and U.S.-Iran tension, CGTN’s Wang Guan spoke with Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Iran’s former Ambassador to Germany.
“Seyed Hossein Mousavian on Iranian President Rouhani’s election win,” CGTN America, May 21, 2017.
Other countries are still trying to figure out what Trump means to them
“Tehran’s assessment of the Trump administration is that it doesn’t have a solid strategy,” said Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who was a member of Iran’s negotiating team that agreed in 2003 to suspend uranium enrichment and is now a scholar at Princeton. “So Iran will be patient to see what the strategy will be.”
“Other countries are still trying to figure out what Trump means to them,” Erin Cunningham et al, The Washington Post, April 28, 2017.
Interview: U.S. Threatens Nuclear Deal it Admits Iran Respects – How Will Tehran Respond?
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former senior Iranian diplomat, analyzes the Trump administration’s “review” of the Iran nuclear agreement despite acknowledging that Tehran is fulfilling its obligations, and discusses the threat of a worsening proxy war in Yemen, Iran’s support for Bashar al-Assad, the upcoming Iranian presidential elections, and the possibility for Tehran-Washington cooperation on Syria and other Middle East issues.
“U.S. Threatens Nuclear Deal it Admits Iran Respects – How Will Tehran Respond?” The Real News Interview, April 25, 2017.
Amb. Mousavian Quoted in Le Monde on Syria Strikes
Ambassador Mousavian Quoted:
“For Iran, it is the responsibility of the UNSC to decide about all issues related to international peace and security and therefore the US cannot determine redlines and take actions unilaterally. The US is making the UNSC irrelevant. ”
“As the US become more unpredictable, Iran would be also more unpredictable.”
“L’Iran est encerclé par les Américains,” Caroline Hayek, Le Monde, April 8, 2017.
Interview: Going Global With David Delgado
Interview: The effect of a Trump Presidency on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, aka The Iran Nuclear Agreement and the possible fallout of Trump’s Revised Travel Ban on the Agreement and Global Security.
“Interview: Going Global With David Delgado,” Voice It Radio, March 27, 2017.
Interview with al-Akhbar: Trump and Iranophobia (Arabic)
“Trump and Iranophobia,” Nadine Shalak, al-Akhbar, March 22, 2017.
L’Iran est encerclé par les Américains (Rea
Hossein Mousavian, chercheur à l’université de Princeton, ancien officiel et diplomate iranien, était l’invité de l’Institut Issam Farès pour les politiques publiques et les affaires internationales à l’AUB, lors d’une conférence, mercredi dernier, portant sur les enjeux du nucléaire dans la région et dans le monde.
“L’Iran est encerclé par les Américains,” L’Orient-Le Jour, Caroline Hayek, March 17, 2017.
Iran committed to nuclear deal despite Trump threats, say observers
“Former Iranian diplomat Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who is closely allied with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and who served as spokesman for his country’s nuclear negotiations with the European Union from 2003 to 2005, believes that Iran is keen to maintain the deal … ‘Since day one, no one has been able to complain of any failure of Iran in implementing the deal,’ Mousavian told Middle East Eye at a mostly closed-door conference on nuclear challenges in the region at the American University of Beirut on 15 March.”
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“Iran committed to nuclear deal despite Trump threats, say observers,” Abby Sewell, Middle East Eye, March 19, 2017.
America’s 4-decade push for regime change in Iran a failure – Iran nuclear deal negotiator
“As Iran goes ahead with new ballistic missile tests and the tone in Washington grows tougher, is the fragile peace between Iran and the US in jeopardy? And can the hard-fought nuclear deal survive the tensions? We ask the man who negotiated the agreement for Iran, former head of the Iranian National Security Council’s Foreign Relations Committee and professor at Princeton university – Seyed Hossein Mousavian.”
“America’s 4-decade push for regime change in Iran a failure – Iran nuclear deal negotiator,” Russia Today, February 20, 2017.
