without being detected.
Afrasiabi presented himself as an independent political scientist, academic and expert. He allegedly wrote articles, including instance for
The New York Times, a book, and gave TV interviews while getting guidance and payments from the Iranian regime. When Iranian officials reportedly asked him to revise an article already submitted, he followed up on their instructions.
A year ago, three Republican Senators, Ted Cruz (TX), Tom Cotton (AK) and Mike Braun (IN), called on the U.S. Department of Justice to open an investigation into the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). NIAC s innocuous public branding masks troubling behavior, the senators wrote. The congressmen noted that this entity was a lobby group acting as a foreign agent of the Islamic Republic..