Obama to fund anti-govt. elements in Iran: Report…
US President Barack Obama is re-branding a Bush-era plan to fund anti-government Iran-based elements through domestic and foreign entities, a report says.
The Obama White House has apparently refused to act on the former administration’s decision to allocate USD 66 million to Iranian dissidents, devising a new approach instead, USA TODAY reported on Friday.
His team has demanded that an additional USD 15 million be pumped into the Near Eastern Regional Democracy Initiative which addresses related issues in the region.
Some of that money will be targeted at Iran, said David Carle, a spokesman for the appropriations subcommittee that oversees foreign affairs, the daily added.
Meanwhile, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which promotes the country’s foreign policy, has filed an application for a 20-million-dollar grant earmarked for the groups which back opponents of the Iranian government.
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