'Inherently politicized case': Political scientist subjected to massive wiretapping by US denies acting as Iran's 'foreign agent' -- RT World News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : His "slew of publications" speaks for itself, Afrasiabi told RT, stating that his years-long work has been solely dedicated to "trying to bring the US and Iran closer together and bridge the differences."
44% : Namely, Afrasiabi said he has been hounded by the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), a major Iranian expatriate opposition group.
43% : The case against him "in many ways has to do with the hostility between the US and Iran," Afrasiabi told RT.
43% : This case is inherently politicized, it seems to me that I'm being used as a leverage against Iran and the US attorney seeks to bring my conviction in order to showcase it to the world.
30% : The dual citizen sees himself as an "agent of peace" in line with his Iranian-American identity and said he "never stood back from criticizing Iran" and is "nobody's agent."
28% : Some opposition groups outside Iran have also capitalized on this and have unfairly accused me of, for example, the MEK organization has accused me of demonizing them.
24% : The author, however, believes he has fallen victim to political gamesmanship and that the timing of the charges in the waning hours of the Donald Trump administration indicates it was part of Washington's "maximum pressure strategy" against Iran.
21% : Political scientist Kaveh Afrasiabi, accused by the US of acting as a "foreign agent" for Iran, believes the case against him is purely political, with charges brought against him in the final hours of the Trump administration.

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