Amid an FBI investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified information, embattled U.S. Iran envoy Robert Malley has been offered plum academic gigs at two Ivy League colleges.
Neither school mentioned in their announcements that Malley is currently the focus of an FBI investigation.
Malley's entry into the Ivy League is already raising eyebrows within Congress and Washington, D.C.'s foreign policy community, particularly since the sidelined diplomat is still entangled in an unresolved FBI probe.
Malley will lend both schools his expertise after spending the past two years in the Biden administration working to secure a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal, efforts that included waiving sanctions on Tehran to give it access to potentially billions in frozen funds.
Amaney Jamal, the dean of Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, where Malley will be hosted, also has drawn scrutiny in recent months over her role as an adviser to student Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli researcher who was abducted earlier this year by an Iraqi militia group linked to Iran.
"I think Malley will fit in really well at Princeton-it's a top notch program with other Iran experts like Seyed Mousavian, who oversaw assassinations of Iranian dissidents while the Islamic Republic's Ambassador to Germany and who gloated on Iranian state TV about death threats to Malley's predecessor, former Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook," said Gabriel Noronha, a senior Iran adviser at the State Department in the Trump administration.
Republican lawmakers-who have already launched multiple investigations into the Biden administration's efforts to stonewall probes into Malley's conduct-expressed shock that a prominent school would hire a diplomat enmeshed in controversy.
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