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Reuters:
"The historic nuclear deal reached between Iran and major world
powers has yet to be implemented, but one clear winner has emerged:
Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei
has yet to publicly back the accord, which lifts some sanctions on Iran
in return for limits on its nuclear program. But he does stand to
benefit, thanks to his close control of one of the most powerful and secretive
organizations in Iran -- 'Setad Ejraiye Farmane Hazrate Emam,' or Setad.
The deal, which is likely to go into effect after clearing a major
Congressional hurdle last week, lifts U.S. secondary sanctions on Setad
and about 40 firms it owns or has a stake in, according to a Reuters
tally based on annexes to the deal. The delisting of Setad -- which has
little connection to Iran's nuclear program but is close to Iran's ruling
elite -- feeds into U.S. Republicans' criticism that the deal will
empower Iran's hardliners and help fund its regional ambitions... Setad
was originally sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in June 2013. The
conglomerate 'produces billions of dollars in profits for the Iranian
regime each year,' said David Cohen, then the Treasury's under secretary
for terrorism and financial intelligence, at a Senate banking committee
hearing that year. Setad, Cohen said at the time, controls 'massive
off-the-books investments' hidden from the Iranian people and
regulators... Already, one Setad firm appears to be moving to take
advantage of the deal. Ghadir Investment Company, which the U.S. Treasury
identified as a Setad-linked firm, signed a 500 million euro ($565
million) contract with the engineering unit of Finmeccanica, a spokesman
for the Italian defense group said in August." http://t.uani.com/1goEf98
AP:
"Senate Republicans will try a second time on Tuesday to move ahead
on a resolution rejecting the Iran nuclear deal, and the outcome is
expected to be the same: Democrats are poised to block the measure and
preserve President Barack Obama's foreign policy win. Last week, Senate
Democrats blocked GOP attempts to get a disapproval resolution to Obama's
desk and House Republicans settled for passing two related measures that
are never expected to get out of Congress... Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., has scheduled another vote Tuesday to end debate, but
that motion is likely to be blocked by Senate Democrats as well. It's
unclear if this is the last vote the Republican-led Senate will take on
the Iran nuclear deal. Though measure is unlikely to advance, Republicans
are staging the Senate vote to make political points against Democrats
and in future Senate races. They point to polls showing Americans have
reservations about the deal. Republicans are also working to craft new
sanctions legislation to maintain a hardline stance against Iran. Looking
ahead to next year's elections, Republican campaign committees also have
targeted Democrats who backed the deal and some organizations against the
deal already have threatened to withdraw political contributions from
members of Congress who backed it." http://t.uani.com/1OtdHRK
NYT:
"Russia has sent some of its most modern battle tanks to a new air
base in Syria in what American officials said Monday was part of an
escalating buildup that could give Moscow its most significant military
foothold in the Middle East in decades. Pentagon officials said that the
Russian weapons and equipment that had arrived suggested that the
Kremlin's plan is to turn the airfield south of Latakia in western Syria
into a major hub that could be used to bring in military supplies for the
government of President Bashar al-Assad. It might also serve as a staging
area for airstrikes in support of Syrian government forces. 'We have seen
movement of people and things that would suggest the air base south of
Latakia could be used as a forward air operating base,' Capt. Jeff Davis,
a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday. American military specialists
analyzing satellite photographs and other information said Russia had
about half a dozen T-90 tanks, 15 howitzers, 35 armored personnel
carriers, 200 marines and housing for as many as 1,500 personnel at the
airfield near the Assad family's ancestral home. And more is on the way
as Russia appears to be trying to increase its influence in Syria amid
the civil strife there, the officials said... The Russian efforts appear
to be facilitated by Iran, which also backs the Assad government and gave
permission to the Russians to fly over its territory. In late July, Maj.
Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head of the Quds Force, who has been directing
Iran's military support for Mr. Assad, is believed to have gone to Moscow
despite a United Nations travel ban." http://t.uani.com/1istVyG
Nuclear Program
& Agreement
WSJ:
"It remains unclear how long it will take to implement the nuclear
agreement between Iran and six major powers and lift sanctions on Tehran,
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Monday, with Iran still having a
'big job' ahead to meet its commitments. In a news conference in Vienna
on the sidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency's annual
conference, Mr. Moniz said that with Congress now appearing unlikely to
block the nuclear deal, the Obama administration is turning its focus to
implementation... 'They've a big job ahead of them,' Mr. Moniz said of
Iran. 'Many have estimated the order of six months. They are clearly
going to try to make it shorter than that because obviously they have
every advantage in terms of economic relief to make it earlier. 'It's
going to depend upon the scale of their trained manpower and the ability
to do an awful lot of jobs in parallel. So we don't know.'" http://t.uani.com/1US3nYN
Al-Monitor:
"Iranian Foreign Minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad
Javad Zarif finally testified before parliament's special committee to
review the comprehensive nuclear deal between Iran and the five permanent
members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1)... Zarif praised
his deputies, Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Majid Takht-Ravanchi, for being
able to negotiate the country out of the UN sanctions. He said that this
was the first time a country was able to negotiate out of Chapter 7 UN
sanctions, saying that it took 10 years after Saddam Hussein's downfall for
Chapter 7 sanctions on Iraq to be removed. Zarif said that the
'reversibility,' or the so-called snapback of sanctions, was a compromise
in order to remove sanctions at once... Since the P5+1 wanted to remove
sanctions step by step, according to Zarif, and Iran wanted the sanctions
removed immediately, the compromise of 'reversibility' of sanctions was
introduced. Zarif said that this arrangement works to Iran's benefit
because if any of the P5+1 countries fail to live up to their
obligations, Iran can quickly return to its nuclear work, but the
implementation of sanctions is much more time-consuming and
complex." http://t.uani.com/1FKiW8v
Reuters:
"The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog will visit Tehran
this week, joining a group of experts who were due to fly late on Monday,
Iran's top nuclear official said. Ali Akbar Salehi spoke in Vienna after
meeting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano, who
is responsible for monitoring whether Iran complies with a nuclear deal reached
with world powers on July 14. The IAEA said in an email that a visit by
Amano to Tehran was under consideration but the 'details are still to be
worked out'... 'About 12 or 13 IAEA experts are going to Tehran tonight
and Amano will visit in the next three or four days,' Salehi said on
state television late on Monday." http://t.uani.com/1QCPLuB
Sanctions
Relief
Reuters:
"AccorHotels has agreed a deal to use its Novotel and Ibis brands on
two hotels it manages at Tehran's main international airport and is
setting its sights on growth potential in the country. AccorHotels said
it would be the first international hotel group to launch its brands in
Iran when the deal with the owner of the hotels, Aria Ziggurat Tourism
Development Co, takes effect next month. Iran is set to have relief from
international sanctions next year following an agreement with six world
powers in July to curb a nuclear programme that the West feared was aimed
at making nuclear weapons. Iran has denied that allegation. The two hotels,
a midscale Novotel IKIA with 296 rooms and an economy Ibis IKIA with 196
rooms, are linked to the main terminal of Imam Khomeini International
Airport. The owner Aria Ziggurat Tourism Development Co is part of
tourism investment holding SEMEGA. 'Our brands are looking at huge growth
potential in this country, which is home to almost 80 million people and
is expanding its economy,' AccorHotels Chief Executive Sebastien Bazin
said in a statement on Tuesday." http://t.uani.com/1FcHP1O
WSJ:
"Mr. Aliabadi is part of a small but increasingly visible group of
Iranian-Americans who have returned to Iran to help bring western
business back, too. A 32-year-old former Pittsburgh resident, he has
worked as a business adviser in Tehran for the past six years, helping
European, U.S. and Asian corporations devise a strategy for working in
Iran when nuclear sanctions are lifted. Their work has taken on new
urgency after July's agreement by the U.S. and other world powers to pull
back sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran's nuclear program... Mr.
Aliabadi is joined by other Iranians who have moved back to Tehran to
serve as a bridge to their ancestral home. Majid Zamani, for instance, a
former consultant to the World Bank, heads Kardan Bank, which helps
Iranian companies raise funds. Iranian returnees 'are the advance party
laying the ground for foreign companies,' said Esfandyar Batmanghelidj,
the organizer of the Europe-Iran Forum, an event focused on Iranian
business opportunities in Geneva next week." http://t.uani.com/1Lw2zi3
Reuters:
"Iran wants China's help to resolve tensions and unrest in the
Middle East and is ready to play host to more Chinese firms once
sanctions against it are lifted, Iran's foreign minister said on
Tuesday... 'China and Iran find mutual benefits in many areas,' Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told his Chinese counterpart, Wang
Yi, at the beginning of a meeting in Beijing. China is the biggest
customer of Iranian oil and Zarif said their economies were
'complementary'. The two countries faced 'similar challenges as well as
opportunities', he said... 'After the agreement is implemented, illegal
sanctions imposed upon Iran by Western countries will be lifted, a lot of
Chinese companies will have more chances to cooperate with Iran,' he
said." http://t.uani.com/1idRMkX
Press TV (Iran):
"A major Austrian oil company has indicated its readiness to
purchase crude oil from Iran, following suit with other European
companies that have already taken a similar step. In an interview with
the Iranian Oil Ministry's official SHANA news agency on Sunday, managing
director of ROTH oil group, noted that the group is mulling plans to
start purchasing crude oil from Iran. Rudi Roth noted that his company
cooperated with Iran in the field of crude trade during past years,
expressing hope that following removal of sanctions against Iran, it
would once again start purchasing Iran's oil." http://t.uani.com/1USPQuC
Al Arabiya:
"The opening of a new air corridor between two neighboring countries
rarely captures the attention of the world's media. But when Emirates
Airline launched flights from Dubai to Mashhad on 1 September, everyone
knew the UAE flag-carrier was thinking about much more than its own
bilateral links with Iran. Air traffic between the two countries has been
rising since long before July's landmark nuclear agreement... FlyDubai
has followed suit by expanding its Iranian network from two to nine
destinations this year, while Etihad has more than doubled frequencies on
its Abu Dhabi-Tehran route. Much the same script is being followed across
the water in Doha, where flag-carrier Qatar Airways has grown seat
capacity on its three Iranian routes by 30% since last summer." http://t.uani.com/1Kdk74q
Cyberwarfare
NYT:
"A question from a member of the Pentagon's new cyberwarfare unit
the other day prompted President Obama to voice his frustration about
America's seeming inability to deter a growing wave of computer attacks,
and to vow to confront the increasingly aggressive adversaries who are perpetrating
them. 'Offense is moving a lot faster than defense,' Mr. Obama told
troops on Friday at Fort Meade, Md., home of the National Security Agency
and the United States Cyber Command. 'The Russians are good. The Chinese
are good. The Iranians are good.' The problem, he said, was that despite
improvements in tracking down the sources of attacks, 'we can't
necessarily trace it directly to that state,' making it hard to strike
back... In classified sessions, American intelligence agencies have told
members of Congress that while computer attacks on the United States
emanating from Iran decreased during the negotiations over the nuclear
accord, they believe that an Iran stymied in developing a nuclear ability
over the next 10 to 15 years is likely to pour more resources into
cyberweapons. Such weapons have already been used against the Navy,
American banks, a Las Vegas casino and Saudi Arabia's largest oil
producer, without setting off significant retaliation." http://t.uani.com/1URVxOU
Human Rights
WashPost:
"The brother of detained Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian
urged a U.N. rights panel on Tuesday to help obtain the journalist's
release from an Iranian prison where he awaits a verdict after trial for
charges including espionage. Ali Rezaian, speaking to the U.N. Human
Rights Committee at its meeting in Geneva, said Iran has violated its
international commitments and its own law in detaining his brother for
nearly 14 months and trying him in closed-door sessions of the
Revolutionary Court... But the timing of Rezaian's plea to the committee
is awkward for Iran. President Hassan Rouhani is preparing to travel to
New York to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly later this month, and
he is planning a series of meetings with scholars and journalists to
present Iran's views on the nuclear agreement reached with six world
powers, including the United States... 'Jason has been mistreated and
psychologically abused,' Ali Rezaian said. 'He has suffered serious
untreated infections, lost [55 pounds], and struggled with respiratory
and other complications. His mental health deteriorates daily in the face
of prolonged isolation and intimidation.'" http://t.uani.com/1W07X4g
RFE/RL:
"It's a man's world for Niloufar Ardalan, one of Iran's best female
soccer players and known as Lady Goal for her on-field exploits in
international women's Islamic tournaments. Ardalan says she will not be
able to compete in an upcoming tournament in Malaysia because her husband
has refused to grant her permission to travel abroad as required by
Islamic laws enforced in Iran. The 30-year-old athlete has captained
Iran's national team and was set to compete in the Asian Football
Confederation's women's championship in futsal, an indoor version of
soccer in which each team fields five players, to be held in the
Malaysian town of Nilai on September 21-26. In Iran, however, married
women need the consent of their husbands to leave the country and can be
banned from traveling abroad if their spouses do not sign the paperwork
needed to obtain or renew a passport... The frustrated soccer star says
she had trained hard for weeks to compete in the games and make her
country proud. 'But my husband didn't give me my passport so that I can
[participate] in the games, and because of his opposition to my travel
abroad, I [will] miss the matches,' Ardalan said in a September 11
interview with the news site Nasimonline.ir." http://t.uani.com/1FcLigN
Opinion &
Analysis
UANI Advisory
Board Member Michael Gerson in WashPost: "Since the
Iran nuclear deal was announced in mid-July, the world has been treated
to an unusual historic spectacle. As President Obama was busy twisting
congressional arms to prevent repudiation of the agreement, the Iranian
regime has been systematically humiliating him. Almost immediately,
bulldozers began sanitizing the Parchin nuclear complex, where Iran is
suspected to have researched the weaponization of nuclear technology - a
final taunt to mark the erasure of the United States' 'red line' demand
that Iran account for the 'possible military dimensions' of its nuclear
program. Iran's military and Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders still
publicly dispute there will be any inspections of military facilities.
Ten days after the deal was announced, Quds Force commander Qasem
Soleimani flew to Moscow (in defiance of a U.N. travel ban) to meet with
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and President Vladimir Putin. In
short order, Iranian and Russian military forces began arriving in Syria,
apparently to prop up the faltering regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
In addition to tanks and drones, the Russians have sent prefabricated
housing and mobile air traffic control systems, all the signs of an
extended stay. Several weeks after the deal's announcement, Iran's
nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, revealed that Iran had found
unexpectedly generous domestic reserves of uranium, which may come in
handy someday. The Iranian military unveiled a new generation of surface-to-surface
ballistic missiles. And Iranian leaders continue to deny the legitimacy
of all U.N. Security Council restrictions on the importation of weapons.
'We will sell and buy weapons whenever and wherever we deem it
necessary,' President Hassan Rouhani has said. 'We will not wait for
permission from anyone or any resolution.' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's
Twitter feed is a stream of provocative trolling, promising the end of
Israel, posting an image that appears to be the silhouette of Obama with
a gun to his head and threatening that in any military confrontation 'the
one who will emerge loser will be the aggressive and criminal U.S.' The
Iranian supreme leader and Donald Trump have this much in common: They
find their opponents to be losers. This is bound to be one of the reasons
that a clear majority of Americans and a majority of the House and Senate
oppose the Iranian nuclear deal - because Iran has done everything
possible to rub America's face in Obama's concessions. Obama was left to
save the deal through a crude and partisan appeal. The Iranian regime's
motives in all this are evident. The demonstration of U.S. impotence has
been a long-term goal of Iranian public diplomacy. Their message to
people across the Middle East: The United States won't be here forever to
protect you, so it is a mistake to side with them against us. Iran is
effectively announcing that it will be more aggressive in the region
after the deal, not less. And it has an increased capacity to do so -
flush with cash, released from constraints and basking in new legitimacy.
'The dictator has been careful, all along,' says Michael Doran of the
Hudson Institute, 'to make sure that the deal appeared, at home and
abroad, as the U.S. capitulating to Iran. We made it very easy for him to
do that, because we conceded all our red lines, and he conceded on none
of his. He could depict it as a capitulation, because it was.'" http://t.uani.com/1KksI2b
UANI Advisory
Board Member Michael Singh in War on the Rocks:
"President Obama's defense of the Iran nuclear deal rests on a
simple premise: It's either this deal or war. According to the
administration, not only is there no better deal to be had, but the
inevitable consequence of rejecting the deal will be an eventual military
conflict with Iran. Our government's acceptance of the deal is now a
foregone conclusion, but it is still worth noting that 'this deal or war'
is a false choice three times over. Regardless of whether one felt the
deal on offer was the best choice, there were plainly alternatives to it
other than war. Nor was the notion that President Obama might engage in
military conflict with Iran a credible one. Despite the possibility that
the deal would not materialize prior to its announcement on July 14 or
that it might later face legislative defeat, no preparation for the
possibility of conflict was apparent. The administration was quick to
dismiss the effectiveness of the 'military option' even as it insisted
that it remained on the table. Paradoxically, even had U.S. military threat
been credible, the 'this deal or war' formulation would still have been
false; indeed, it would have disproved itself. The United States did not
and does not desire a conflict with Iran, but retains the capacity to
prosecute one if necessary. By contrast, the Iranian regime cannot afford
a military clash with the United States. If Iranian leaders felt that the
United States would respond militarily to certain nuclear advances (or
other actions), they most likely would be deterred from taking those
actions. During the final phase of the nuclear talks, the United States
sacrificed its leverage by forsaking deterrence. In any negotiation, each
party must compare the deal on offer with the likely alternatives. By
denigrating or dismissing the alternatives to a negotiated accord -
whether strengthened sanctions or military action - Western negotiators
allowed Iran to hold out for a better deal. Despite U.S. assertions that
officials were ready to walk away from the negotiating table, in reality
American rhetoric suggested that we had nowhere to go. This might all now
be primarily a matter of historical interest were it not for the fact
that deterrence will continue to play a vital role in enforcing or
improving the nuclear accord in the coming years. States adhere to
treaties not because they harbor a sense of fairness or deference to
legal authority, but because they keenly appreciate their national
interests. These commitments are kept out of concern for the consequences
of other courses of action rather than mere fealty to the text. In this
sense, treaties tend not to shape reality but codify it - states often
would take the actions pledged in a treaty even in its absence. In such
cases, what treaties usefully provide is enhanced exchange of
information. Rather than each side simply guessing about whether the
other is taking a particular action, treaties provide a mechanism for
dialogue and verification to provide greater assurance, thereby
preventing misunderstandings. Therefore, Iran must continue to believe it
remains in its interest to keep its commitments as the nuclear deal is
implemented. For this to be the case, the consequences of violating the
deal must be serious and credible. These should include renewed
sanctions, which are certainly preferable to military action if they can
be made effective. But sanctions work only with the cooperation of other
states, including some (like Russia or China) that are unlikely to be
sympathetic to U.S. concerns regarding Iranian behavior. Even with broad
international support, the pressure of sanctions may be insufficient or
take effect too slowly to deter Iran in a scenario where it is determined
to gain nuclear weapons. For this reason, the United States must retain
and project a credible military option in the event of Iranian
violations. This will not only deter Iran, but will also provide a
powerful incentive to other states to urge Iran to keep its commitments.
In the event of an Iranian failure to comply with the deal, a credible
U.S. military option will also help convince other states to join the
United States in re-imposing sanctions, even if only to avert an American
military action against Iran that would be damaging to their
interests." http://t.uani.com/1Mplf8P
Alex Shirazi in
The Daily Beast: "When the world's major powers
struck a deal over Iran's nuclear program in Vienna in July, it
represented a victory not just for the Islamic Republic, which has now
been granted international legitimacy as a nuclear threshold state, but
also for a small but increasingly influential lobby in America, one which
has long sought rapprochement between Washington and Tehran and now seeks
to leverage a successfully concluded nuclear deal as a means to that
end. This Iran lobby, publicly represented by the National Iranian
American Council (NIAC), has become a staunch institutional ally of the
White House selling the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the
nuclear deal is known. But while NIAC has done the heavy-lifting-the
ad-buying, the leafleting, and Congressional meet-and-greets, all
designed to sell lawmakers on the Iran deal-its political efforts also
underwrite the economic interests of one very well connected but
low-profile Iranian family, the Namazis, who played a key role as
intellectual architects of NIAC... In November 1999, when Khatami was
still president and, Siamak Namazi got together with a Swedish-Iranian
expat named Trita Parsi at a conference in Cyprus. The conference,
titled, 'Dialogue and Action Between the People of Iran and America,' was
convened jointly by the Centre for World Dialogue, a Cypriot
non-governmental organization, and by Hamyaran, an Iranian
non-governmental resource center for other NGOs, which was chaired by
Mohammad Bagher Namazi, the family patriarch. Namazi fils and Parsi there
presented an influential white paper, 'Iran-Americans: The bridge between
two nations,' which called for three steps to ameliorate U.S.-Iranian
relations in advance of reconciliation... The white paper led to the
creation two years later, in 2001, of NIAC, a Washington, D.C.-based
organization which Parsi founded and currently heads... Parsi was
extremely well-placed to front the Iran lobby. He had obtained a
doctorate at Johns Hopkins on a subject intimately tied to the lobby's
central thesis-the relationship between Israel and Iran and how the
former hindered the latter's acceptance in the U.S. He even studied under
Francis Fukuyama, a onetime neoconservative policy intellectual who
abandoned his ideological comrades when the Iraq war went south. Finally,
Parsi had gained valuable political experience on the Hill by working for
Republican Congressman Bob Ney, a connection he has not included in his
curriculum vitae and official website. (Ney went to jail in 2007 for
accepting bribes from mega-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's Native American
casino clients.) While serving as president of NIAC, Parsi also wrote
intelligence briefings as an 'affiliate analyst in Washington, D.C.' for
AB, focusing on such topics as whether or not the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) would revive its anti-Iran campaigning on the
eve of the Iraq war, or on efforts by the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MeK), the
militant Iranian opposition group that exposed Natanz in 2002 would get
itself de-listed as a terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department.
Parsi was paid for his work for the consultancy, as disclosed by an email
sent from Bijan Khajehpour to him, dated Sept. 22, 2002, an employment
that Parsi did not mention when fulsomely praising Khajehpour in the
Huffington Post as an ideal Iranian businessman... Indeed, it has also
tried to define the parameters of acceptable Iranian civil society groups
(i.e., ones that never really undermined the regime) by partnership with
Hamyaran, described by NIAC as an 'NGO umbrella organization'. In reality,
however, it was conceived as more of a governmental non-governmental
organization and launched by those close to Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami-its board member was Hossein Malek Afzali, a deputy minister in
Khatami's government). By NIAC's own admission, the organizatiom
'operates independently, but with the implicit permission of the Iranian
government.' (Emphasis added.) Hamyaran's board of directors was also
once chaired by Namazi paterfamilias Mohammed Bagher. Hamyaran obtained
support from the congressionally funded National Endowment for
Democracy-as did NIAC, which received Endowment funding in 2002, 2005,
and 2006 in the collective amount of close to $200,000. NIAC described
Hamyaran to the Endowment in 2004 as its 'main partner in Iran.' Perhaps
unsurprisingly, among those civil society groups selected for NIAC and
Hamyaran's 'Digital Film Production Workshop Report,' a training program
for Iranian activists to learn how to use digital media, were those
described as having been 'contracted by the Iranian government' or
'worked closely with the Iranian government.' As for NIAC, Carl Gershman,
the president of the National Endowment for Democracy, told The Daily
Beast, 'We're not supporting NIAC now and we have nothing to do with
them.' 'Back then there were people arguing, Try to get into Iran and we
thought this was a way forward,' Gershman said. 'We weren't aware when
these grants were made that NIAC were presenting themselves as a lobby.
We didn't know that. Our effort was to work with emerging space in Iran.
We were trying something that might be a way to help people on the
inside. But that quickly became unworkable; the grant didn't work. Then
NIAC showed itself as a lobby organization, so we have nothing to do with
them anymore. Not every grant works out the way you want it to.' Asked if
that meant that NED regretted working with NIAC, Gershman answered: 'Yes,
I think that's true.' At the same time it was taking U.S. taxpayer money,
NIAC wanted to end U.S. government support for NGOs which categorically
opposed the Islamic Republic." http://t.uani.com/1M91rDP
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