Ted Cruz Calls on Princeton to Dismiss Former High-Level Iranian Regime Official from University
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is calling on his alma mater, Princeton, to dismiss Seyed Hossein Mousavian from the University, citing a ‘risk to students.’
Mousavian is a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at the university and a former Ambassador of the Islamic regime to Germany.
In 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce announced an investigation into Mousavian.
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) sent a letter to Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, signed by 10 other Republican committee members, that included a list of questions about Mousavian and his ties to Iran.
The letter noted, “Mousavian’s position on the faculty of Princeton for the past 15 years … raises significant concerns about the influence of foreign hostile regimes on American institutions.”
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and the Workforce has launched an investigation into @Princeton‘s hiring of #Iran regime’s Hossein Mousavian, and is demanding answers from Princeton. https://t.co/jy88LNUueH pic.twitter.com/RtAdKHIxhT
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) November 19, 2023
Now, Senator Cruz is asking for the University to dismiss Mousavian as “students feel justifiably afraid for their safety.”
“Mousavian is closely linked to the Iranian regime and to the regime’s campaigns of terrorism and murder. His presence at Princeton makes students feel justifiably afraid for their safety. Princeton’s decision to keep employing him shows they care less about their students, and more about providing a platform for pro-regime and anti-American propaganda. That kind of reckless institutional ideological bias is exactly why the Trump administration is reassessing federal funding for Princeton,” Cruz told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement.
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Maximillian Meyer, president of Princeton Tigers for Israel, and an undergraduate at the university, told Fox News Digital, “I commend Sen. Cruz for raising urgent concerns about Princeton’s employment of Mousavian, whose career has been defined by shilling for the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Credible reports linking Mousavian to the oversight of Iranian dissident assassinations in Europe – alongside his endorsement of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie – are deeply alarming.”
I’m calling on President Trump @POTUS and Secretary of State Rubio @SecRubio to take urgent action against Princeton University professor Sayed Hossein Mousavian, a former Ambassador of the Islamic regime in Iran who is linked to the murder of dozens of Iranian dissidents during… pic.twitter.com/DRo57yyzd2
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) March 26, 2025
In 2023, U.S. military leaders invited Mousavian to headline their 2023 Deterrence Symposium, where he described “unjustified American acts of aggression” towards Iran dating back nearly a century in front of top military brass.
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