Imagine a group of people who claim to be experts on Iran, but actually work to advance a specific agenda aimed at sabotaging any chance for peace and cooperation between Washington and Tehran.
Many thanks to Sina Toossi for this review of FDD's personnel and policy positions. Regrets that I am only now seeing this (July 2023) expose', though in fact I have been following FDD' s dangerous neocon proposals and slavish echoing of the narratives of the most rightwing Israeli policy advocates for the past few years. Things have gotten even worse of late, as FDD works to expand its voice and credibility via the appearance of its 'experts' and spokespersons on more panels and podcasts of DC-based and other "think-tanks"-- from The Woodrow Wilson Center to the Atlantic Council and, recently, MEI. Not that any of these is devoid of editorial "slant". WINEP experts, for example, often include neocons and anti-JCPOA voices, or parrot an Israeli officialist narrative, but still at times provide articles with informed analytic content. FDD, for reasons and links Toossi cites, comes the closest the U.S. offers to an organization with an overt militarist ideological agenda. Above all in its efforts to rally opinion for attacks on Iran, with the resources to amplify its messages, FDD is a clear and present danger.
Many thanks to Sina Toossi for this review of FDD's personnel and policy positions. Regrets that I am only now seeing this (July 2023) expose', though in fact I have been following FDD' s dangerous neocon proposals and slavish echoing of the narratives of the most rightwing Israeli policy advocates for the past few years. Things have gotten even worse of late, as FDD works to expand its voice and credibility via the appearance of its 'experts' and spokespersons on more panels and podcasts of DC-based and other "think-tanks"-- from The Woodrow Wilson Center to the Atlantic Council and, recently, MEI. Not that any of these is devoid of editorial "slant". WINEP experts, for example, often include neocons and anti-JCPOA voices, or parrot an Israeli officialist narrative, but still at times provide articles with informed analytic content. FDD, for reasons and links Toossi cites, comes the closest the U.S. offers to an organization with an overt militarist ideological agenda. Above all in its efforts to rally opinion for attacks on Iran, with the resources to amplify its messages, FDD is a clear and present danger.