Mojtaba Mousavi

Mojtaba Mousavi, a Tehran-based journalist, is the founder and editor of IransView.com. He is also a foreign-politics analyst for the Iranian news agency Nasim. His reports are published extensively in Iranian newspapers and magazines. On Twitter: @MohammadZaam

Iran | Sep 29, 2013

Collapse of US-Iran Negotiations Will Result in Return of Extremists

Collapse of the negotiations between Presidents Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani will mean the return of Iranian extremists.

Presidential candidate Saeed Jalili (C) casts his ballot during the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 14, 2013. Millions of Iranians voted to choose a new president on Friday, urged by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to turn out in force to discredit suggestions by arch foe the United States that the election would be a sham. REUTERS/Fars News/Armin Karami (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FO

Iran | Apr 6, 2013

Why Iran, West Cannot ReachAgreement on Nuclear Talks

Iran is offering a wider framework for continued nuclear negotiations and insists that its right to nuclear enrichment be recognized, writes Mojtaba Mousavi.

Participants from the U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany prepare to start talks with Iranian negotiators in Almaty April 5, 2013. World powers will urge Iran on Friday to accept their offer to ease some economic sanctions if it stops its most sensitive nuclear work, in talks aimed at easing tensions that threaten to boil over into war. REUTERS/Ilyas Omarov/Pool (KAZAKHSTAN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXY96H

Syria | Mar 11, 2013

Iranian Parliamentarian SaysAssad Could Win Elections

In an exclusive interview with Mojtaba Mousavi for Al-Monitor, Iranian parliamentarian Ismaeil Kowsari downplayed hopes for a breakthrough in P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran and suggested that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could win elections in 2014.