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Reminder: Do not uncritically believe numbers that are being put out by "Human Rights" organizations (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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The huge death tolls in Iran being splashed all over the media are sourced to an outfit in Fairfax, VA called "Human Rights Activists in Iran" that is overwhelmingly funded by the US government. What is their methodology? Is it credible? Who cares? Just pump the big numbers out.

National Endowment for Democracy (NED) received $315 million in FY2025, and GOP appropriators just released their FY2026 spending bill -- NED will again receive $315 million. This "Human Rights Activists in Iran" outfit, based in Northern Virginia, says it's an NED grantee.

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah. Right. No, sorry, i can't help there. Have you tried ProPublica?

Regardless, i don't think anyone has any doubt that the NED is funded by the US government. You don't need an IRS form to know that. And the fact that these US based "Iran Human Rights" orgs work with the NED is publicly documented on their sites:

Here is NED calling them a "partner": https://www.ned.org/ned-partner-recognized-for-promotion-of-human-rights-and-democracy-in-iran/

And here is the group admitting to receiving NED funding: https://www.hra-iran.org/article/an-inner-view-to-the-human-rights-activists-in-iran-keyvan-rafiee-founder-and-director-of-human-rights-activists-in-iran/

Therefore, HRA expanded its network and decided to start receiving financial aid from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-governmental and non-profit organization based in the United States.