February 5, 2024

Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Attorney General Garland, We write to urge you to investigate the International Crisis Group for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), given recent revelations of its members’ activities and the groups’ longstanding secret relationship with the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [...] On February 2, 2024, Semafor reported that the Crisis Group established a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2016 with the in- house think tank of the foreign ministry of Iran, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), which is notorious for its promotion of Holocaust denial. [...] In addition to the Crisis Group’s official relationship with the Iranian government, the group and many of its most prominent members have a documented history of acting on behalf of the government of Iran. [...] Despite the September 2023 revelation of this pledge of loyalty to an Iranian government official, Vaez remains the Director of the Crisis Group’s Iran Project. [...] There is a clear pattern of behavior indicating that the Crisis Group is in fact not an independent organization, but a chief mouthpiece of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States.