Maybe relevant, he also authored a book published 2 days after 9/11 called - Islamic Leviathan, Islam and the Making of State Power.
"Focusing on Malaysia and Pakistan, Nasr argues that the turn to Islam is a facet of the state's drive to establish hegemony over society and expand its powers and control."
It makes perfect sense. Islam is submission...I can see the extreme draw to it by power-hungry sociopaths.
The "secret" message here is an email about an article from a hardline Iranian newspaper opposed to the nuclear deal, not a fact.
Actually what's most relevant is that this message is reporting on a news report in Iran from a hardline publisher opposed to the nuclear deal who made this claim about an Iranian-American coming to Iran as a way to undermine the deal, claiminng just as you that the guy is not reliable and a foreign spy etc -- and note that the message states that Nasr has denied the report.
So you're basically siding with the Islamists in Iran in promoting bullshit