Seyed Hossein Mousavian speaks at U.S. Army War College

Seyed Hossein Mousavian speaks at United States Army War College (USAWC), with video posted 23JUN15 at the USAWC YouTube channel.

It is a credit to the openness and scholastic integrity of USAWC to invite Mousavian to speak at length on the topic of Iranian national security.

The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a United States Army institution in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 500 acre (2 km²) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks. It provides graduate level instruction to senior military officers and civilians to prepare them for senior leadership assignments and responsibilities. Each year, a number of Army colonels and lieutenant colonels are considered by a board for admission.[3] Approximately 800 students attend at any one time, half in a two-year-long distance learning program, and the other half in an on-campus full-time resident program lasting ten months. Upon completion, the college grants its graduates a master's degree in Strategic Studies. [source: Wikipedia]

Hossein Mousavian (born 1957 in Kashan) is an Iranian policymaker and scholar who served on Iran’s nuclear diplomacy team in negotiations with the EU and International Atomic Energy Agency. He currently resides in the United States, where he is a visiting research scholar at Princeton University. [source: Wikipedia]

Nuclear Deal Still Possible – Former Negotiator

Hossein Mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator for Iran, wrote in an editorial in the Boston Globe that a nuclear deal between Iran and the major world powers is still possible. The two sides will meet in Istanbul on 13 April.

"Talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany (P5+1)... provide the best opportunity to break the nine-year deadlock over Iran's nuclear program," Mousavian wrote [Reuters, 1 April].

Mousavian, currently a visiting scholar at Princeton University, also writes that the world powers need to recognize Iran’s right to enrich uranium.

"For Iran, this is the recognition of its legitimate right to create a nuclear program - including enrichment - and a backing off by the P5+1 from its zero-enrichment position.

"For the P5+1, it is an absolute prohibition on Iran from creating a nuclear bomb, and having Iran clear up ambiguities in its nuclear program to the satisfaction of the International Atomic Energy Agency," Mousavian writes.