Yesterday, Iran's Intelligence Ministry blacklisted dozens of American and European think tanks, universities, NGOs and rights groups as "subversive" responsible for sowing unrest inside Iran.
So, who made the list?
Herewith, a translation. The New America Foundation, intellectual home of former NSC Middle East hand Flynt Leverett, who has argued for making a grand bargain with Iran, managed to make the list not once, but twice (see 22 and 51). So too did the International Republican Insitute (6 and 29).
1. Soros Foundation — Open Society
2. Woodrow Wilson Center
3. Freedom House
4. National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
5. National Democratic Institute (NDI)
6. International Republican Institute (IRI)
7. Institute for Democracy in East Europe (EEDI)
8. Democracy Center in East Europe (CDEE)
9. Ford Foundation
10. Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
11. Hoover Institute at Stanford Foundation
12. Hivos Foundation, Netherlands
13. Menas, U.K.
14. United Nation Association (USA)
15. Carnegie Foundation
16. Wilton Park, U.K.
17. Search for Common Ground (SFCG)
18. Population Council
19. Washington Institute for Near East Policy
20. Aspen Institute
21. American Enterprise Institute
22. New America Foundation
23. Smith Richardson Foundation
24. German Marshal Fund (US, Germany and Belgium)
25. International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
26. Abdolrahman Boroumand Foundation at Yale University
27. Meridian Center
28. Foundation for Democracy in Iran
29. International Republican Institute
30. American Initiative Institute
31. Private Trade International Center
32. American Center for International Labor Solidarity
33. International Center for Democracy Transfer
34. Albert Einstein Institute (headed by nonviolence resistance guru Gene Sharp)
35. Global Movement for Democracy
36. The Democratic Youth Network
37. Democracy Information and Communication Technology Group
38. International Parliamentarian move for Democracy
39. RIGA Institute
40. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
41. Council on Foreign Relations
42. Foreign Policy Society, Germany
43. MEMRI
44. Centre for Democracy Studies, U.K.
45. Yale University and all its affiliates
46. National Defense University, U.S.
47. Iran Human Rights Documents Center
48. American Center FLENA, Active in Central Asia
49. Brookings Institution Saban Center
50. Human Rights Watch
51. New America Foundation
Presumably this is Iran's answer to the list of expanded Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps front companies the Obama administration says it has identified for sanctions.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0110/Blacklist_Whos_on_Iran_intel_ministrys_list_.html
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