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Rice wants funds for democracy initiative in Iran
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | February 16, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress yesterday to fund a sweeping initiative to promote democracy inside Iran that would expand satellite broadcasts to enable Washington to ''engage" directly with the Iranian people. The initiative also would lift US restrictions to allow US funding for Iranian trade unions, political dissidents, and nongovernmental organizations.

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