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US Strategic Command Hosts Former Iranian Official Who Bragged About Efforts To Assassinate US Leaders
Washington Examiner ^ | Aug. 29, 2023

Posted on 08/31/2023 5:04:04 PM PDT by nuconvert

Hussein Mousavian headlined STRATCOM's Deterrence Symposium

U.S. military leaders earlier this month hosted a former top Iranian official who came under fire last year for bragging about the hardline regime’s efforts to assassinate American leaders.

U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) tapped Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team who works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, to headline its 2023 Deterrence Symposium, a high-level powwow that brought the former Iranian official shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s top military brass.

Mousavian’s appearance at the mid-August gathering, which came to light on Monday after STRATCOM posted a video of the event, drew criticism from former U.S. officials and veteran Iran analysts who questioned why America’s premier military outfit would host someone who maintains close ties to the Islamic Republic.

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1 posted on 08/31/2023 5:04:04 PM PDT by nuconvert
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“In his remarks, Mousavian thanked Gen. Anthony Cotton for inviting him to the event ...”


2 posted on 08/31/2023 5:05:25 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nuconvert

Sounds like the guy had chance to take care of some business and didn’t. What’s up with that?


3 posted on 08/31/2023 5:07:34 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: nuconvert

The dean of my engineering college had a senior seminar for graduating seniors. It was an intimate round table affair, and he had in inventors, entrepreneurs, a multimillionaire and a group of Iranian dissidents. THEY really made an impression. They got to go talk full-tilt-crazy. I looked around the table at the wide-eyed, open-mouthed disbelief and noticed the dean kept a hand in front of his face to hide his smile. It was one of the most educating moments of my college career. You don’t really realize how crazy crazy can be until you sit down and talk to it.


4 posted on 08/31/2023 5:08:36 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: nuconvert

SPJNK.


5 posted on 08/31/2023 5:40:29 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nuconvert

Madness.


6 posted on 08/31/2023 5:54:00 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

Who in hell is running the US military? Expatriates from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?


7 posted on 08/31/2023 6:40:23 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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“Who in hell is running the US military? Expatriates from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?”

It sure seems like it, doesn’t it?


8 posted on 08/31/2023 6:45:11 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: nuconvert

I wish he had done us a favor.
Start with Joe Biden and work down from there.
But of course, they know Democrats, alive, are far more dangerous to the USA than any weapons they could devise.


9 posted on 08/31/2023 7:19:22 PM PDT by rellic
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To: nuconvert; Fedora

Teaching at Princeton — with blood on his hands (Seyed Hossein Mousavian)
NY Post ^ | December 31 2019 | Reza Behrouz and Peter Kohanloo
Posted on 1/2/2020, 2:12:56 AM by knighthawk

Seyed Hossein Mousavian is an ex-Iranian diplomat whose tenure in Germany coincided with the regime’s assassination of four dissidents on German soil. Yet he currently lives in comfort in the United States. Does he belong here? That’s the question raised by a number of prominent Iranian-Americans in a recent letter to Attorney General Bill Barr.

The details are grim. Late evening on Sept. 17, 1992, four men were dining together in the backroom of the Mykonos restaurant, a Greek eatery in central Berlin. They were Iranian exiles who had gathered to meet a prominent Kurdish opponent of the Tehran regime.

At 10:47 pm, two masked assailants entered the restaurant and began firing at the men, killing all four. The killers immediately fled the scene. The German government launched an investigation, which led to the identification of an Iranian intelligence officer, three Hezbollah jihadists and an Iranian-German businessman who jointly coordinated the assassination.

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10 posted on 09/18/2023 7:57:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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