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The Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI) is a U.S.-based Iranian dissident organization founded in 1995 by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Peter W. Rodman, Joshua Muravchick and Iranian opposition expatriates to attempt to topple the Iranian government.

According the National Endowment for Democracy, "FDI acquires much of its information from sources inside Iran, including local Iranian news reports not normally available in the West." [1]

Contents 1 Key FDI Personnel 2 Funding 3 Contact Details 4 Related SourceWatch Resources 5 External links

Key FDI Personnel

• Nader Afshar (Chairman)
• Joshua Muravchik
• Peter W. Rodman
• Mehdi Rouhani (founding member)
• Kenneth R. Timmerman (Executive Director)

Source

Funding

In 1996, the FDI received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for Democracy for Media and Publishing to "monitor and document the human rights situation in Iran." The National Endowment for Democracy noted that "the information will be aired through international broadcast services such as the Voice of America and the BBC, in both English and Farsi, as well as through television networks." [2]

Contact Details

The Foundation for Democracy in Iran
831 Woodmont Ave - Suite 395
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: (301) 946-2918
Fax: (301) 942-5341
E-mail: exec AT iran.org
Website: http://www.iran.org

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
• war in Iran

External links

• Foundation for Democracy in Iran in the Wikipedia.
• Ron Jacobs, "Kenneth Timmerman's Iranian 'Democracy' and the 'Intelligence' Summit," MR Zine, January 2, 2006.
• Steven D, "Beware! Iran to Have Bomb in a Few Months!" Daily Kos, January 23, 2006.
• "FDI Appeal" posted on the Marze Por Gohar Party Iranians for a Secular Republic website, January 24, 2006: launch of an appeal "to identify and freeze Iranian government assets around the world."
• Ron Jacobs, "'A Long Struggle' against Iran," MR Zine, March 11, 2006.
• Ron Jacobs, "Condi and Iran," CounterPunch, March 11/12, 2006.