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.
Nah man you posted a form 990 underneath the headlines, see that “form 990 2024”? The problem is I cant even find this one on the IRS website as they only released the form 990 2023 in august of 2025…Are we sure this is real? We need to verify it.
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/
Like I do not doubt in the slightest that the NED is funding HRANA but without the ability to find it yourself this is pretty useless.
These are all the NED 990 forms that I’ve found on ProPublica where HRANA is mentioned by searching the employer identification number 80-0841029 inside each link:
HRANA is definitely on that NED money
Thanks king
FOUND IT THANKS TO YOU ITS FROM THE 2015 990. Thats so unintentionally deceptive lmfao
In 2016 the NED changed the name of the recipient of the grant on their 990 from Human Rights Activists in Iran to the acronym HRAI. This will help anyone reading prove to those you are radicalizing that the sources being cited by mainstream news are on the NED payroll still which segues nicely into talking about the NED and its history of destabilization.
Creator of the image, like me, didn’t ctrl+f the tax id of the "n"go like we should have.