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\\u201cSatellite Images Raise Questions About Iran Threat, Experts Say,\\u201d worries The Daily Beast. \\u201cIran And Trading Partners Will Find Ways To Skirt Sanctions, Analysts Say,\\u201d frets NPR. \\u201cIran uses proxies to punch above its weight in the Middle East, experts say,\\u201d declares NBC News. \\u201cFuel from Iran is financing Yemen rebels\\u2019 war, U.N. experts say,\\u201d writes the Associated Press.

Experts say. Analysts say. Officials say. We hear these qualifiers constantly in the media and when it comes to reporting on Iran, experts, analysts, scholars and Fellows are consistently tapped to weigh in on the latest nefarious thing the "Islamic Republic\\u201d is up to now.

But who are these so-called experts? What\\u2019s their track record like and what are their tangential, non-Iranian, related regional political goals? And what does a recent partnership between the Trump State Department and Foundation for Defense of Democracies that targets peace activists on social media tell us about the broader problem of so-called neutral experts? On today\\u2019s episode, we\\u2019ll dig into some of the resumes of the media\\u2019s favorite experticians and breakdown how a revolving door of deeply ideological partisans use US media to pawn themselves off as apolitical scholars.

We are joined today by journalist and editor Arash Karami.