An Arrest in the US Shows the Islamic Republic’s Influence in the West
(2021) In Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Perspective Papers- Abstract
- The FBI recently arrested an Iranian academic for failing to register as a foreign agent in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Kaveh Afrasiabi was arrested in Massachusetts and is believed to have received more than $250,000 from the Iranian regime to disseminate its propaganda in the guise of objective analysis. Iranian agent-scholars are easy to recognize: they always oppose the overthrow of the regime and they oppose any form of sanctions. They criticize the regime on occasion as a means of concealing their role as agents.
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- Khoshnood, Ardavan LU
- publishing date
- 2021-02-08
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kaveh Afrasiabi, FBI, Influence, Modus Operandi, Intelligence Analysis, Intelligence operations, Iran, Islamiska Republiken Iran, Kaveh Afrasiabi, FBI, Modus Operandi, Underrättelse, Underrättelsetjänst, Underrättelseanalys
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- Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Perspective Papers
- issue
- 1923
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
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- ba47ebe4-1526-4868-81fd-9fe3b79d3383
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- 2021-02-08 23:51:48
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