Korman appeared unimpressed. “Everything you just went through is largely irrelevant,” the judge said. The judge advised Afrasiabi to clam up. “The best advice that Ms. Von Dornum could give you is to say nothing,” Korman said. Earlier Korman told Afrasiabi, “you’ve made a lot of foolish admissions, but that doesn’t matter.” It may have been a reference to Afrasiabi’s acknowledgment, in an email to The Algemeiner soon after his arrest in January 2020, that he received checks from the Iranian UN Mission’s account. “It never occurred to me that I was doing anything illegal,” Afrasiabi said at the time, which may bear on the