{"id":7842,"date":"2017-08-01T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2017-08-01T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T04:26:00","slug":"rep-calls-on-feds-to-investigate-irans-ties-to-us-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/08\/01\/rep-calls-on-feds-to-investigate-irans-ties-to-us-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep calls on feds to investigate Iran\u2019s ties to US universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7843\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/112415mayortransportation16matt-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Dan Donovan\" width=\"437\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/112415mayortransportation16matt-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/112415mayortransportation16matt-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/112415mayortransportation16matt.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Rep. Dan Donovan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">New York Post August 1, 2017<\/span>:\u00a0 Federal authorities should investigate how a charitable foundation with ties to Iran steered millions of dollars to dozens of American universities including Columbia, Harvard and Princeton, according to Rep. Dan Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>Critics charge the grants from the Alavi Foundation helped fund pro-Tehran and anti-Israel professors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be contacting the secretary of education .\u2009.\u2009. about this matter immediately,\u201d said Donovan (R-SI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid this foundation attempt to subvert American academic institutions? .\u2009.\u2009. We need to investigate this, and universities have to do a better job of vetting their donors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June, a Manhattan federal court jury found the Alavi Foundation was illegally managing 650 Fifth Ave. on behalf of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New York Post August 1, 2017:\u00a0 Federal authorities should investigate how a charitable foundation with ties to Iran steered millions of dollars to dozens of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/08\/01\/rep-calls-on-feds-to-investigate-irans-ties-to-us-universities\/\" title=\"Rep calls on feds to investigate Iran\u2019s ties to US universities\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7844,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/7844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}