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Frequent New York Times Opinion Writer Was Secret Iranian Agent, Federal Prosecutors Charge
by Ira Stoll
January 21, 2021

The New York Times published more than a dozen opinion articles and letters to the editor by Kaveh Afrasiabi. A 2018 Times op-ed under his byline identified him as “a former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.” A 2012 Times op-ed identified him as “a former political science professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.” This week, Afrasiabi was arrested and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Iranian government. READ MORE