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May 8, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7519179&page=1

Foundation President Indicted in Iran Probe

[ABC News] Maddy Sauer and Richard Esposito - Farshid Jahedi, president of the Alavi Foundation which the U.S. government has long suspected of being a front for Iranian espionage and anti-American activities, has been indicted on charges that he allegedly destroyed documents just one day after receiving a grand jury subpoena instructing him not to do so. The foundation has been described by a former CIA official as "totally controlled by the government of Iran." According to court documents, "The foundation funds a variety of anti-American causes, including the four Islamic education centers it owns in New York, Maryland, Texas, and California.... Mosques funded by Alavi have organizations which support Hizbullah and Hamas."

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