Heshmat Alavi
Heshmat Alavi

@HeshmatAlavi

18 Tweets 3 reads Jan 18, 2022
THREAD
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“He was suffering more from the outside than from the inside.”
Excellent read by @TherouxPeter on how @Princeton turned its back on @XiyueWang9 while he was #Iran’s hostage.
There are names you need to know about.
Let me explain.
tabletmag.com
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@hmousavian is a “specialist” of Princeton’s Iran Studies Center
Despite being a former senior regime official, when asked if he was ever asked by anyone at Princeton to intervene with his colleagues in Tehran on Wang’s behalf, Mousavian balked
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@hmousavian 3)
“Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat & head of its Nat Sec council, was hosted at the [Obama] White House at least three times” & “helped the WH craft its pro-Iran messaging & talking points that helped lead to the nuclear agreement with Iran.”
freebeacon.com
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Mousavian, a “Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist” at Princeton’s “Program on Science and Global Security,” is literally dubbed as “Princeton’s Iranian Agent of Influence,” is known for his role in Iran’s assassinations abroad.
washingtonexaminer.com
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While Princeton says Mousavian had a “distinguished career,” it is worth noting that he was Iran’s ambassador in Germany overlooking the September 1992 Mykonos restaurant killing of four Iranian Kurdish dissidents.
heshmatalavi.substack.com
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Mousavian:
"Brian Hook's wife didn't sleep for nights, trembling & crying till morning, saying to Brian, 'They'll kill you. You were involved in [Qassem Soleimani's] murder. This is how terrified they were."
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Historian Says Princeton Left Him To ‘Rot’ in Iranian Prison
Mousavian, the former Iranian diplomat & other Princeton employees with ties to #Iran's government, "made the intentional decision not to utilize their political capital" in Iran to help him.
freebeacon.com
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For an in-depth look at Mousavian, I recommend watching this very informative @IranianForum video to the end.
youtu.be
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Princeton turned its back on Wang, while they were eager to invite chief #Iran apologist/lobbyist @tparsi to their panel.
Read all about Parsi here
heshmatalavi.substack.com
@tparsi 10)
Princeton also invited #Iran apologist @barbaraslavin1.
It is worth noting that Slavin is quite fond of the ayatollahs’ regime in Iran, and vice versa.
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As a sign of her “professionalism,” Slavin once showed the middle finger to Iranian dissidents criticizing her ties to the regime.
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@vali_nasr, a known #Iran apologist/lobbyist, can be described as the “Hossein Mousavian” of @JohnsHopkins University.
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Vali Nasr is the son of Hossein Nasr, a known Iranian lobbyist in the U.S. so close to Tehran he was seen sitting next to former regime president Mohammad Khatami.
Vali Nasr also has close ties with #Iran’s DC-based lobby arm @NIACouncil.
@NIACouncil 14)
Here you see Ali Akbar Salehi, former head of #Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, having no problem participating in a panel along with Nasr.
This is quite telling of how Tehran has the utmost trust in Nasr and Nasr’s access to regime officials.
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Nasr & Mousavian teamed up for a pro #Iran appeasement piece, parroting one of Tehran’s main demands in the ongoing nuclear talks & literally encouraging the Biden admin to turn a blind eye to the ayatollahs’ escalating support for terrorism.
foreignpolicy.com
ADDENDUM:
BTW, #Iran apologists/lobbyists in the U.S. don’t like being called out.
For me, their blocking on Twitter—alongside many other Iran apologists/lobbyists—is a badge of honor.
ADDENDUM:
Mousavian, Parsi, Slavin, and Nasr are among the main elements of #Iran’s PR campaign and senior members of Tehran’s network of apologists/lobbyists in the West.
Here are a few names of this network.
ADDENDUM:
@Twitter is tagging many of my tweets in this thread as "Age-restricted adult content."
Why is that, @TwitterSupport?
Are you guys sensitive about how the content of my thread is damning for #Iran's regime?
If so, why? If not, why the "age restricting"?

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