"The Bush administration is expanding efforts to influence Iran [3]'s internal politics," including increasing aid to exile groups and airing "longer broadcasts criticizing the Iranian government" on Voice of America [4] satellite TV programs. Under secretary of state for political affairs R. Nicholas Burns said the United States is "taking a page from the playbook" on Ukraine [5] and Georgia [6]. In those two countries, "opposition and pro-democracy groups" given U.S. funding "later supported the peaceful overthrow of the governments in power." Through the National Endowment for Democracy [7], the U.S. State Department [8] has already spent $500,000 to investigate "human rights, business enterprise and women's rights" in Iran. Over the next year, the State Department will spend $3 million, "for the benefit of Iranians living inside Iran," including on "broadcast activities, Internet programs and 'working with people inside Iran.'"