Political Scientist Charged With Being Unregistered Agent for Iran

Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, a political scientist and author living in the U.S., has been arrested and charged by the Justice Department with acting as an unregistered agent for Iran.

Afrasiabi was arrested at his home in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Monday. The criminal complaint against him was unsealed on Tuesday.

“For over a decade, Kaveh Afrasiabi pitched himself to Congress, journalists, and the American public as a neutral and objective expert on Iran,” said John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security. "However, all the while, Afrasiabi was actually a secret...