Four years after he was charged by the Justice Department with acting as an “agent of the Iranian government”, Kaveh Afrasiabi appeared on China’s state propaganda CGTN, quoting Iran’s Supreme Leader and warning of “irreparable damage” if Trump were to act against Iran.
“Iran has a lot of naval assets that can come into play,” the Iranian political science professor warned viewers of China’s propaganda machine. Previously Afrasiabi, whom the DOJ complaint stated had “pitched himself to Congress, journalists, and the American public as a neutral and objective expert on Iran”, had appeared on CGTN, to claim that Israel was engaged in an “unprovoked war” and again attacked President Trump for standing up to Tehran.
The strange thing however was not that Afrasiabi, who had been described as having acted as “a secret employee of the Government of Iran and the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations who was being paid to spread their propaganda”, was spreading pro-Iranian propaganda to Iran’s Chinese Communist allies, but that he was still here.
The 2021 indictment stated that, “our arrest of Kaveh Afrasiabi makes it clear that the United States is not going to allow undeclared agents of Iran to operate in our country unchecked.” That went by the wayside two years later when President Joe Biden signed a pardon for Afrasiabi allegedly as part of the administration’s serial hostage deals with enemy nations.
Allowing undeclared agents of Iran to operate in America was now officially Biden’s policy.
Unlike conventional prisoner exchanges, Afrasiabi and two others were not actually expected to leave America. The pardon however was conditioned on Afrasiabi not breaking any further laws and not deriving any financial benefit from any publication about his “situation”.
Had Afrasiabi actually changed?
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Author: Ruth King
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