Rouzbeh Parsi

Rouzbeh Parsi is a Swedish-Iranian academic who headed the Middle East and North Africa programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). He was identified as a member of the Iran Experts Initiative, attending the inaugural meeting at Vienna's Palais Coburg in May 2014 alongside other Western-based Iranian academics recruited by the Iranian Foreign Ministry through IPIS to promote Tehran's nuclear negotiating positions in Western policy circles.