Iranian American Forum, 14 November 2013

Since the new round of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program started in Geneva in mid October, the details of the proposal on the table have remained secret to the public and according to Daily Beast, Secretary Kerry has even refused to tell US Senators any details of the pending agreement.

Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and a member of Iranian nuclear negotiation team in 2003-205 who currently resides in the US asserted in Al Monitor that the “draft agreement was drafted primarily by Iran and the United States.”

This draft is a result of behind-the-scene discussions between the two countries that started in June 2013 after Hassan Rouhani won presidential election. According to Al-Monitor columnist Ben Caspit, the Israelis are concerned about the extent and content of these talks:  “A  well-versed senior Israeli official told me that Israel was concerned by the “back-channel” negotiations between the United States and Iran. That channel, according to the Israeli source, has been very much alive and productive in recent weeks, having begun well before the start of the official negotiations between Iran and the powers, and that’s the main track where agreements and progress are being made. Israel doesn’t know anything about, is what the Americans and the Iranians are concocting in the back rooms.”

Iranian American Forum has received several credible reports that Hossein Mousavian has been a key figure in these back-channel talks.

Mousavian was admitted to the US in 2009 as a scholar at Princeton University and since then, he has been working closely with former and current high ranking US officials who favor engagement and friendship with Iranian regime. Mousavian has been able to build trust with officials at the State Department and acted as a middleman between the two countries. Since Hassan Rouhani’s victory, he has played a pivotal role in shaping US approach toward Iran and nuclear talks.

Mousavian’s activities are generously finances by various foundations that seek friendship with the Iranian regime, on top of them, Ploughshare Fund.

Mousavian was Iran’s ambassador to Germany in the 1990s when this embassy was considered as the supporting center for planning and execution of high profile terrorist attacks against Iranian opposition leaders. He played a key role in the release of Western hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon in exchange for economic and diplomatic incentives for the Iranian regime. Mousavian was a prominent member of Iranian negotiation team in nuclear talks with three European countries between 2003 and 2005 and Hassan Rouhani led the Iranian delegation. In a TV interview in Tehran in 2006, Mousavian boasted that Iran deceived the European troika and used negotiations to buy time for Iran’s nuclear program. (watch this video, minute 14.04)

Watch this video documentary: “Hossein Mousavian, an Iranian terrorist turned Princeton scholar”