The Boston Globe is reporting that for the first time, Congress is set to approve sending $1.5 million to Iranian dissidents who are attempting to undermine the Iranian government. The funding was attached to the massive omnibus spending bill by Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. The Pentagon has also secretly held meetings with Iranian dissidents including Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late shah of Iran, and Manucher Ghorbanifar, a discredited Iranian who played a role in the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages affair in the 1980s. A 1987 Congressional reported determined that Ghorbanifar, aas a fabricator and a nuisance. The Times reports the CIA considers him to be a con man. Meanwhile the Financial Times reports the American Enterprise Institute, the leading neoconservative think tank, has begun piping in a new live radio program into Iran advocating for regime change.