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New York Times Writer Arrested As Secret Iran Agent Acknowledges He Was Paid By Iranian Government

2021-01-28

[Algemeiner] The frequent New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
opinion contributor who was arrested earlier this month and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Iranian government acknowledges that he was paid by the Iranian mission at the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
"I received checks from the Mission’s UN account and it never occurred to me that I was doing anything illegal," the New York Times opinion writer, Kaveh Afrasiabi, wrote in a statement to the Algemeiner.

He called the government’s claim that he was a secret Iranian agent "absurd" and "wild."

"Whatever I did was perfectly legal and fully transparent," Afrasiabi said, saying that he had believed the Foreign Agents Registration Act "only applied to those engaging in lobbying efforts on behalf of a foreign government, which I never did."

A New York Times spokesperson did not respond to a query about whether the newspaper, which according to a search on its website Monday morning had not yet covered the federal criminal complaint against [Kaveh] Afrasiabi, plans to tell its readers about the situation. The spokesperson also did not respond to a question about whether the newspaper plans to publish an editor’s note indicating that the opinion pieces came from someone who was getting paid by the Iranian government.

Afrasiabi said the payments from the Iranian government — about $265,000 since 2007, plus health insurance coverage, federal prosecutors alleged — had not swayed his writing. "At no point in my professional career, I have been moved by anything other than my rather puritanical moral responsibility as an intellectual," he said.

Posted by:trailing wife

#6 Wouldn't it be easier to just lock down the building and let out the ones who are not agents?

Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-01-28 17:32

#5 Pretentious swill made me laugh out loud Raj. Perfect phrase!

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-01-28 12:21

#4 ...my rather puritanical moral responsibility as an intellectual,

I bet the editors got a raging hard-on when they heard that pretentious swill - "This guy's a natural!"

Posted by: Raj 2021-01-28 09:19

#3 "And my primary puritanical responsibility as an intellectual is to keep the intellect well fed, well dressed and in the pink of health."

Posted by: Dron66046 2021-01-28 04:21

#2 "At no point in my professional career, I have been moved by anything other than my rather puritanical moral responsibility as an intellectual," he said.

That apparently you never seem to have commented on the Iranian government's many and manifold faults tells us all we need to know, bub.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-01-28 04:15

#1 Given the Trump Admin. properly addressed the IRANIAN International Terrorist and spread of Radicalized Islam head on and not with plane loads of $$$$. Iran planting enemy agents in our media to dump crap on Trump and MAGA supporters is logical 5th column plan.

Now the 3 BIGGER questions.
1. Who on the Editorial Team knew and for how long?
2. Will they be brought in also for questioning?
3. If found guilty will these person be fired?

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-01-28 03:43

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