{"id":236967,"date":"2021-03-29T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236967"},"modified":"2023-01-28T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:02:33","slug":"iranian-disinformation-has-gone-unchallenged-in-the-west-for-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iranian-disinformation-has-gone-unchallenged-in-the-west-for-over-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Disinformation Has Gone Unchallenged in the West for Over a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hossein Mousavian Iranian regime\u2019s former ambassador to Germany and current \u201cscholar\u201d at Princeton University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Would you believe that Princeton University employs a former collaborator with Iranian terrorists and provides him with venues to communicate with a mainstream audience through print publications and media appearances? Would you believe that this has been the case for more than a decade? Such facts are objectively shocking but come to as little surprise to those who are familiar with the tactics Iran has long used to spread its talking points beyond its borders.<\/p>\n

In 2009, Seyed Hossein Mousavian<\/a> allegedly broke ties with the Iranian regime and relocated to the US in order to become a \u201cvisiting scholar\u201d at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Since then, his work and his public advocacy have made it abundantly clear that his supposed self-imposed exile was all an act, presumably designed to give him a veneer of legitimacy while promoting regime talking points to a Western audience.<\/p>\n

Just this week, Mousavian used his Twitter account to proclaim that a \u201cdoor of trust\u2026 desperately needs to be reopened between Iran and the United States,\u201d and that the only means to that end is a return to US compliance with the nuclear deal that the US pulled out in 2018. This was presented to ordinary readers as an appeal for \u201cregional peace and stability,\u201d but it is much more straightforwardly a demand for the US to lift virtually all economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic, even while Iranian violations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action continue unabated.<\/p>\n

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With Nuclear Deal, a slight door of trust had opened between Iran and the US but was shut because of the US withdrawal.\u00a0Now that door desperately needs to be reopened (US return to the nuclear deal) for no regional peace and stability can come about without Iran\u2019s cooperation.<\/p>\n

— Mousavian (@hmousavian) March 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n