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Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Ambassador (Ret.) Seyed Hossein Mousavian is a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University and a former spokesman for Iran’s nuclear negotiators. He is the author of many books including: The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir, Iran and the United States: An Insider’s view on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace; A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction and A New Structure for Security, Peace, and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf.

Articles by Seyed Hossein Mousavian

ranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on July 6, 2024. Pezeshkian, who advocates improved ties with the West, on July 6 won a runoff presidential election against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the interior ministry said. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s chance for a major breakthrough in Iran-West relations

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Russian and Iranian foreign ministers meet in Moscow

The West has a 15-month opportunity for a new nuclear deal with Iran that precludes an Iranian Bomb

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

US State Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 7, 2023.

An alternative to the proliferation of uranium enrichment in the Middle East

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General, welcomes Dr. Ali Bagheri Kani, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and his delegation upon their arrival at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 2 December 2021. Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA. (CC BY 2.0)

Two steps to revive—and sustain—the Iran nuclear deal

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, Wang Qun, speaks to journalists in front of the Grand Hotel after the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna, where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran held their talks. The United States participates in discussions in Vienna to try to save the international agreement on Iranian nuclear power. However, they don't meet at the same table as Tehran and it is the Europeans who serve as intermediaries between the two parties. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why a quick return to the Iran nuclear deal is needed to avoid a real nuclear crisis

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Mohammad Javad Zarif, in 2019

Nine hurdles to reviving the Iran nuclear deal

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk

Three steps toward resolving Iran’s nuclear crisis

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons