Interesting opinion. Can you give an example where these foundations have funded terrorist groups disguised as "opposition" in the past, just so that they accomplish a higher goal for US authorities?
Is that really what the HRF does or supports?
HRF (and other organizations like it) does not publicly disclose a list of foreign groups they support. Publicly they prefer the focus to be on peaceful-looking things like their Bitcoin Development Funds and AI for Individuals programs as a front.
Otherwise if they publicly disclose such things, it will have severe legal consequences for them each time one of those individuals or groups breaks the law and does something nasty. They can be brought to court (in US or international courts) and easily be accused of funding terrorism. Additionally it may also force those groups to be registered as "Foreign Agents" since other countries have similar laws to FARA too.
I analyzed their website regarding Iran and I can tell you with confidence that their approach is completely dictated by the US regime and even the language used is what CIA dictates as part of the regime's policy of aggression towards Iran. These organizations are basically the fake legal face the regime uses to justify its economic terrorism against Iranian people (sanctions with a human rights violation excuse).
Lets analyze an actual example: Shanbehzadeh.
This dude wasn't some covert Zionist operative. This moron publicly boasted about being funded by them on social media. Something he was never arrested for by the way. Then when the time came to activate what I explained in my topic
here as a network of sleeper terrorist cells, as a chief operative he was ordered by his Zionist masters to signal the activation to the cells. Something that let to his arrest 9 days before his network could activate and deal any damage.
I obviously don't have access to the case for further details but I don't have to. This is exactly what he posted on his social media which are Chief Zionist Hakham's orders and it doesn't get clearer than this:
خاخام اعظم ما اشاره داشتند که در کتاب مقدس آمده: محصلان علوم مقدس دینی، برتر از سکولارها و غیرمذهبیها هستند. بنابراین در منزل بمانند و به سحر و جادو مشغول باشند و سایرین به جنگ رفته تا کودکان، امدادگران و زنان بکشند
The timing and the language used in it tells us everything we need to know. This was clearly a signal to activate their terrorist cells. Back in June 2025, these terrorist cells were tasked to start a chaos in various cities to distract everyone from the attack and also other groups were tasked to use FPV (small drones) to overwhelm Iran's highly sophisticated air-defense so that US military launched projectiles can get through the extremely difficult-to-penetrate Iran's layered air-defense.
I've already wrote a comprehensive analysis and drew a crude timeline of it:
Now does HRF mention any of this including the part about murdering "children, rescue workers and women" (تا کودکان، امدادگران و زنان بکشند) in its articles? Hell No!
This Zionist terrorist-operative is referred to as some innocent online activist who was "unlawfully and arbitrarily detained"! And not-surprising at all, under the articles HRF says that the grants are being provided by Templeton foundation... a foundation with direct links to Israel...
Then these things are brought to for example UN and used as evidence to first brand Iran arbitrarily as "authoritarian" and then support the economic terrorism against Iranian people through sanctions. Something the US regime uses to create unrest in Iran as part of its long "regime change" wishes.
Of course the US has funded and is funding organizations which are/were violent and I would have labeled terrorist. But according what I read, bombings in Iran were carried out by the American and Israeli military, not by opposition groups.
The US regime's aggression toward Iran didn't start recently. It has been going on for decades. Every word I used in the hypothetical example I gave you above was intentional. It is based on a real terrorist organization that is fully supported and funded by the West called MEK.
It's main headquarters are currently in Europe (Albania and France) and they have cells in Germany and Sweden as well.
All the attack cases I mentioned above are real as well, that's decades of assassinations, bombings, espionage, etc.
For example:
(1) The attacks on power plants was a series of attacks from ~4 years ago. I even wrote about it in this board since by that time people were talking about Iran's temporary ban on bitcoin mining due to power outage. These terrorist attacks were contributing to the existing problem.
(2) Attacking hospitals is their bread and butter too! One of the most atrocious thing the MEK terrorists have done was from early days of their establishment when they entered Iran from Iraq (their HQ was there during Saddam's reign) and attacked a hospital in Kermanshah (in a city in west of Iran) and murdered anybody they could and then burnt any bed ridden patient to death alongside the hospital itself.
And regarding the recent aggression... You see, the US regime knows very well that militarily, it is too weak even with the entire NATO to even put a dent in Iran's military might let alone win against Iran. So their plan has always been to weaken and maybe even destroy Iran from within. A strategy they've used in many other places like Syria. This is the reason for decades of economic terrorism, medical terrorism, propaganda and brainwashing campaigns, all these terrorist cells that they use as proxy, and so on.
This also explains why in all their attacks majority of their targets were civilians. Like the one everyone already knows: the
Minab elementary school. It is part of the
delusioans of the US regime that thinks it works against Iranians.
If you follow pedophile POTUS's tweets you can even see that delusion. For example they started terrorist attacks on February 28, 2026 thinking they can end Iran in
2-3 days hoping that decades of American economic terrorism has made Iranians hate their own government so much so to overthrow it themselves!
- On the first day millions of Iranians flooded the streets but in support of their government. And knowing what the US regime had done in June 2025, they started establishing "checkpoints" to prevent US regime's un-dismantled terrorist cells from doing anything. This is when the pedophile POTUS was tweeting "unconditional surrender".
- By the second day as Iran continued an extremely deadly retaliatory punishment of the US regime across the entire West Asia and the US casualties were already in triple digits you could clearly see the pedophile POTUS begging Iranians to overthrow their government so that the retaliatory strikes stop!!!
- By day ~10 when the main US military (CENTCOM) bases were deleted from maps, the US regime that was getting desperate started bombing these checkpoints desperately hoping its terrorist cells can activate if they removed that. But the only result was that the number of Iranians who were volunteering to handle those checkpoints skyrocketed and the total number of people on the streets surpassed 50 million.
So you see the strikes the weak US military carried out against Iran (usually from far away using long range million dollar missiles) had another accompanying arm that was active and effective back in 2025 (even though it failed) and inactive and ineffective arm in 2026 but it was there. This is the arm that is supported by such organizations specially each time one of their operatives are captured where they act as the political arm of the US regime.
So it's very much a "bad government(s) vs. bad government(s)" constellation.
No, it's more like the Epstein Class versus a nation with vast amount of resources.
