title: BARAN Foundation
text: # BARAN Foundation
  
  Foundation for Freedom, Growth and Development of Iran (Persian: بنیاد آزادی، رشد و آبادانی ایران), backronymed BARAN Foundation (Persian: بنیاد باران, meaning Rain Foundation) is an Iranian not-for-profit non-governmental organization headed by Mohammad Khatami. Almost all members of the foundation are reformists.
  
  