Adnan Tabatabai

Adnan Tabatabai is a German-Iranian political analyst and founder of the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO) in Bonn. He was identified as a member of the Iran Experts Initiative. Leaked emails revealed that in May 2014 he offered to ghostwrite op-eds for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, writing to IPIS head Mostafa Zahrani with the proposal. He attended the inaugural IEI meeting at Vienna's Palais Coburg in May 2014.