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"People are counting the minutes for this regime to be over and gone," a prominent Iranian dissident recently told National Review Online.(The Week)(Brief article)

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"People are counting the minutes for this regime to be over and gone," a prominent Iranian dissident recently told National Review Online. They may be counting for a long time. But thanks to the Bush administration, they may not have to wait as long as they originally thought. Condoleezza Rice has proposed $75 million in funding for Iranian dissident groups and labor unions, television and radio broadcasts into Iran, and fellowships for Iranians to study in the U.S. That number is more than seven times ...

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