Afrasiabi wants to offset the effect of the Chechen jihadis who are fighting for Putin. It’s a clever tactic, to be sure, demonstrating that he knows how to play on the sensibilities of those with whom he is dealing in the United States.
“Accused Iranian Spy Claims He Needs Trial Delayed Due to Ukraine Conflict,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 28, 2022:
An accused Iranian spy who is on trial in the United States is asking the court to delay his case for three months so that he can travel to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces, a request that experts tracking the case call a ‘laughable’ attempt to escape the justice system.
Kaveh Afrasiabi, an Iranian citizen and U.S. permanent resident, was charged last year with acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Iranian regime. The trial, which was scheduled to move ahead in January, was postponed twice last year at Afrasiabi’s request, sparking Republican concerns that the Biden administration is allowing delays to appease Iran while it negotiates a new nuclear deal.
Now, Afrasiabi wants another delay so that he can travel to Ukraine and “support its war of independence against Russian aggression,” according to an email sent Monday afternoon to the judge handling the case that was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
“I write this letter to request to be granted a temporary leave to join the international legion formed by Ukraine to support its war of independence against Russian aggression. As a political scientist and life-long peace activist who is aghast by the appalling condition of an entire nation, I find it my moral duty to heed Ukraine’s call for help and thus implore the Court to grant a three months leave of absence whereby I can fulfill my own humanitarian calling by going to Ukraine and helping their cause,” Afrasiabi wrote….
“I assure your Honor that I have no other intention and I have absolutely no interest in returning to Iran, which has dreadfully failed to condemn Russia’s invasion, or moving away from my family here in the United States,” he wrote.
Afrasiabi says that his participation in the conflict would “set a good example for other Muslims in the international Muslim community,” particularly in light of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s mobilization of Chechen Muslims against Ukraine.
The defendant says he is not afraid to die for the cause, writing: “Should there be any physical harm to me in the course of my moral duty as a pro-Ukraine volunteer, from my vantage point that is an acceptable price.”
“While I understand the probable hesitations of the Court and the U.S. Government with respect to my unusual request, I implore the Court to take into consideration my long record of peace and anti-war activism that includes placing full page announcements against the invasion of Iraq,” the letter states.
CogitoErgoSum says
He wants the court to consider his record of peace and anti-war activism so he can go to Ukraine to fight in the war. Now that’s hilarious.
mortimer says
A man who has himself as his defense attorney has a fool for a client.
Infidel says
He’d probably defect and join the Chechen assassins trying to target President Zelensky. After all, his country officially supports Russia, not Ukraine
gravenimage says
Good point.
mortimer says
But wait! Aren’t the mullahs and ayatollahs (whom Kaveh Afrasiabi works for) ON THE SIDE OF PUTIN?
Why would an Iranian spy fight to defend the enemies of the ayatollahs who are his bosses? Double agent?
This is clearly a lie on the face of it. Iran is a strategic ally of Russia!
So typical of Muslims who are caught in a crime … they use even the most preposterous taqiyya imaginable.
Kaveh Afrasiabi wins the gold medal in TAQIYYAH.
Orbis sine Jihadi says
Afrasiabi LOOKS like an Iranian spy. So, If the Supreme khaftan-clad-atollah and all his lackeys are in Putin’s corner, and AFRASIABI was a secret agent on their behalf, well… If anything other than a complete crock, it’s likely some Shia/ Sunni BS, no doubt. Taqiyya be damned, they come up with worse lies than Bill Clinton at a sorority mixer.
tim gallagher says
I can see how this scumbag would think, well, I may as well give this a go, I’ve got nothing to lose by trying, and who knows, it might even work, however unlikely, but how gullible would the authorities have to be to actually fall for such nonsense.
Rafael says
+1
I fully agree with you, Tim. The Western lifestyle is far better than the Islamic and other lifestlyes like Putin’s and other’s leftist, socialist anti-Western dictatorships.
They always blame the West, NATO and Israel for their own internal problems, even claiming that Islamic State was created by them.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the +1 and the comment, Rafael. Yes, I think that, compared to the lifestyle most of us live in western countries, life in countries like Russia, or China, which is our biggest threat out here in Australia and this whole region of the world, or in any Muslim country, is terrible. With this war in Ukraine, which I think seems to be mainly because the Ukrainian people wanted to join the western European countries and NATO and have a more western lifestyle, I started to think about the fact that very large numbers of Russians must surely have the same dream although I guess that it is unlikely they will ever escape the dictatorial type of government Russia has..
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Accused Iranian spy wants US trial delay so he can go fight for Ukraine and ‘set a good example for other Muslims’
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He just wants to go and murder some Infidels. I doubt in this case he much cares whose side he fights on.
abu taleb says
Good muslims won’t waste any opportunity to kill non muslims. Allah will reward them while at the same time they can rob the victims’ belonging and capture the victims’ female family members to become slaves.
Isn’t Islam a beautiful religion?