BKSH & Assocs., Burson-Marsteller's lobbying wing, is representing Radio Sedaye Iran (Radio Voice of Iran), the Beverly Hills-based network that advocates regime change in Iran.

That work comes in the aftermath of BKSH doing PR for the Iraqi National Congress and its head Ahmad Chalabi, who was groomed by the Pentagon as a successor to Saddam Hussein, in the years leading up to last year's invasion of Iraq. BKSH managing director Riva Levinson, the key contact on the INC business, leads the Iranian radio account. She is assisted by director Jeffrey Weiss. He's a Republican operative who served as senior advisor to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Weiss also worked in the Bush/Cheney Transition Office, handling former Senator John Ashcroft's successful nomination for Attorney General.

RSI programs 24 hours a day in Farsi and English. Current items on the `Net include a report charging Iranian clerics with meddling in the internal affairs of Iraq. Another warns of an impending Israeli air raid on Iranian nuclear facilities.

RSI admits an attack would "raise an enormous stink in the Moslem world," but feels "the danger of Islamic radicals in Iran getting nuclear weapons is too great to ignore." RSI also offers talk shows and family-oriented fare.

Both the BBC and Financial Times reported in December on RSI's close ties with conservative groups in the U.S. They highlighted an RSI forum with the American Enterprise Institute. It featured call-ins from ordinary Iranians who blasted the Government of President Mohammed Khatami, and called for democratic reforms.