Interview with Italian news agency Adnkronos
May 5, 2025
Iran: Mousavian (Princeton), ‘Negotiations will fail if the US listens to Netanyahu’
Agreement possible if the US accepts the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a basis
Washington, March 5 (Adnkronos)
An agreement between Iran and the United States is possible if Washington agrees to negotiate on the basis of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), while negotiations “will fail” if they listen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”. Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Iran’s former spokesman in the nuclear negotiations with the international community (2003-2005) and currently Iranian visiting professor at Princeton University, where he works on Middle East security and nuclear policy as part of the Program on Science and Global Security, stated in an interview with Adnkronos.
“Iran has always been ready to negotiate on the nuclear issue. In fact, nuclear negotiations have continued consistently since the 1979 revolution and have never been halted” said Mousavian, who previously held several positions in the Iranian administration, including ambassador to Germany and head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Iran’s National Security Council during Khatami’s presidency.
After the fourth round of talks between Tehran and Washington, which was due to take place in Rome last week, was postponed for “logistical” reasons, as the mediating country Oman explained, “There is a chance for an agreement in the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States” if the latter “accept the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) as the basis for the agreement” the expert said.
“If so, based on NPT, Iran will accept all necessary commitments regarding nuclear verification and transparency, and the U.S. will in turn recognize Iran’s nuclear rights under the NPT, which includes peaceful enrichment—similar to enrichment in countries like Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, and the Netherlands” explains Mousavian, who, however, cites another unknown on the road to the agreement. Namely, that President Donald Trump will be able to “resist pressure from the US hawks led by Netanyahu”. The goal of the “American warmongers” is “regime change” through a “military attack on Iran, the same policy that has drawn the United States into devastating wars like the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq,” the Princeton professor continued. “If the United States capitulate to Netanyahu’s demands, negotiations will fail, because Netanyahu by denying Iran’s legal right to enrichment, seeks to drag the U.S. into a trap of war with Iran”.
Iran, Mousavian (Princeton): “Negoziato fallirà se Usa ascoltano Netanyahu”
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