BBC Iranian expert who ranted about ‘chosen people’ pictured in IRGC uniform

[…] Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC Research at United Against Nuclear Iran, told the JC: “Marandi is one of the Iranian regime’s main propagandists. He is the son of the supreme leader’s personal doctor, served in the IRGC – the regime’s terror arm which created Hezbollah – and was even an adviser to the nuclear team under former president and hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi. Despite this, Western outlets – like the BBC, Sky News and Channel 4 – frequently invite Marandi without disclosing his troubling CV to their audiences, referring to Marandi as simply an ‘Iranian academic’. For an outlet like the BBC, which claims to take impartiality very seriously, the failure to disclose Marandi’s deep affiliation with the regime is a major oversight.”