Kaveh afrasiabi biography of christopher

Iranian-American political scientist

Kaveh Lotfollah Afrasiabi (Persian: کاوه لطف الله افراسیابی, born 1958) is an Iranian-Americanpolitical scientist and author, living in Boston, Massachusetts.

In January 2021, Afrasiabi was arrested by the FBI on charges of working as an unregistered agent of the Iranian government. On September 18, 2023, Afrasiabi received a presidential pardon by President Joe Biden and the pending charges against him were dropped at the pre-trial stage.

Career

Afrasiabi is a prominent Iranian-American political scientist and author of more than thirty books on Iran, Middle East, international affairs, theology, as well as novels, plays, and poetry books.^[1] Afrasiabi gained a PhD in Political Science from Boston University in 1998, with a thesis titled "State and Populism in Iran" under the supervision of historian Howard Zinn.^[2][3] Afrasiabi has also studied theology at Andover-Newton Theological