Media
Afrasiabi has worked as a consultant to CBS's "60 Minutes" and has appeared on numerous television programs including CNN, MSNBC, Voice of America, and Al-Jazeera. Afrasiabi is a regular contributor to the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Global Dialogue, and Asia Times. Afrasiabi has written hundreds of articles in these and other newspapers and in scholarly journals including Harvard Theological Review, Harvard International Review, UN Chronicle, Brown's Journal of World Affairs, Middle East Journal, Journal of International Affairs, Telos, and Mediterannean Affairs. A supporter of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he has spoken out in support of the fairness of the 2009 presidential election results on CNN and elsewhere and has been critical of protests over the results while at the same time calling for national reconciliation. In September 2010, Afrasiabi accompanied president Ahmadinejad's delegation to the United Nations and was quoted in Los Angeles Times expressing optimism on US-Iran dialogue. He is also a supporter of Iran's nuclear power program that was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program. Afrasiabi has called for education on the Holocaust in the Muslim Middle East as a "moral imperative." Afrasiabi once challenged the right wing media host Glenn Beck who questioned Harvard University's decision to invite former president of Iran, Mohamamad Khatami, to speak at the university.
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