US ponders pro-democracy Farsi websites

WASHINGTON: The United States is considering setting up Farsi-language Web sites to promote democracy in Iran, a senior US official said on Friday. If it went forward, the idea could be funded out of $100 million that the United States has set aside this year for its Middle East Partnership Initiative, a plan to promote the rule of law and democratic and economic reform in the region. “Something that we are looking at now (is) to what extent some of the $100 million could be used to do things like set up Web sites, for example, that would be in Farsi that would help to support democratic change in Iran,” the official said. —Reuters

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