Former Iranian Government Insider Seyed Mousavian




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Summary: Seyed Mousavian once served as a high-ranking foreign policy official and nuclear negotiator in the Iranian government. In 2007, he was arrested and charged with espionage by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Still, Mousavian -- now a visiting scholar at Princeton -- continues to defend Iran's nuclear program. He joins us to discuss U.S.-Iranian relations and his new memoir.