New York Times Op Ed Writer On Iranian Issues Arrested For Being an Iranian Agent
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) This criminal complaint announced by the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York last week received basically no notice. A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, also known as “Lotfolah Kaveh Afrasiabi,” with acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Afrasiabi was arrested yesterday at his home in Watertown, Massachusetts, and will make his initial appearance this mornin...