'You have to be deported': Cruz fumes at ex-Iranian official on Princeton college

[ad_1] Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz escalated his disagreement with a former Iranian regime official who, as a college member at Princeton, was reportedly making Jewish college students really feel uncomfortable amid international tensions.

"I attempt to not be within the room with individuals linked to Iranian terrorists who've murdered dozens of dissidents," Cruz wrote in response to a prolonged submit on X, previously Twitter, from former Iranian Ambassador to Germany Seyed Hossein Mousavian.

"Your books are unreadable, and the one debate try to be having is with DHS brokers, on the finish of which try to be deported," Cruz quipped.

Mousavian was responding to a Fox Information Digital story wherein Cruz referred to as on Princeton to fireside him from his position as a Center East safety and nuclear coverage specialist. Mousavian had been a spokesman for Iran throughout nuclear negotiations within the 2000s.

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Sen. Ted Cruz and Princeton college member Seyed Hossein Mousavian (Getty)

Mousavian had invited Cruz to publicly debate him in order that the American individuals might choose the details of the matter.

"If you don't settle for this provide, I ask you to learn among the books and articles I've written over my 15 years of educational work at Princeton College," he wrote.

"You will notice that every one of them concentrate on establishing peace between Iran and the USA, introducing a peaceable decision of Iran’s nuclear disaster primarily based on NPT, avoiding dragging America into one other devastating warfare within the Center East, selling peace, stability, and safety within the Persian Gulf, and making the Center East freed from weapons of mass destruction."

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The ex-Tehran official stated he had been arrested by Iran in 2007 and compelled in a foreign country in 2009.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Cruz, Mousavian and Princeton College for remark.

Mousavian beforehand expressed assist for Hamas and Hezbollah and attended the funeral of terrorist Qassem Soleimani – who had been killed in an assault ordered throughout President Donald Trump’s first administration.

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In 2023, a number of prime Republicans, together with Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky and now-DOGE chairman Aaron Bean of Florida, wrote to Princeton with their considerations about Mousavian's tenure.

The letter expressed how Mousavian had been the Berlin ambassador throughout a time when "a German courtroom discovered [it] served because the headquarters for the planning of the 1992 assassination of 4 Iranian dissidents" at a Greek restaurant within the capital.

"Did Princeton seek the advice of with U.S. authorities officers concerning the hiring of Mousavian?" they requested.

Fox Information Digital's Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report .

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