Federal prosecutors said Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi
Federal prosecutors said Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, 63, was to make an initial appearance in US District Court in Massachusetts Tuesday after his arrest one day earlier at his home in Watertown on charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent and acting as a foreign agent without registration. CNN has reached out to an attorney for Afrasiabi for comment. A criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn said Afrasiabi was secretly employed by the Iranian government and paid by Iranian diplomats at the country's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York since at least 2007. See the WikiLeaks Web Crawl in the U.S. that details the prosecution of Afrasiabi and the recent condemnation of the Iranian government of torture of Afrasiabi. Naftali Eifendi, the government's minister for foreign affairs, asserted in U.S. court documents he and his coalition advisory staff told the Telegraph, "The official IFRA was sending negotiations to Zama...