Seyed Hossein Mousavian: Iranian expert, former diplomat
Abhiram KaruppurSeyed Hossein Mousavian, a research scholar in the Program on Science and Global Security at the Wilson School, originally studied engineering, but he is probably most known for playing an important role in the 2003 and 2015 negotiations around Iran’s nuclear program. His career plans changed during his undergraduate years at Sacramento State University. “It was in 1979, two months before the Revolution, that I got one semester break in order to go back to my country and see what was happening,” Mousavian said, describing when he returned to Tehran and witnessed thousands of people protesting in the streets against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. “Practically two months after my arrival, the Revolution was over and the Shah had left the country.
