The Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG) was an interagency organization formed in early 2006 within the U.S. government, consisting of officials from the State Department, White House, Central Intelligence Agency, Treasury Department, and other agencies that worked, to influence regime change in Iran, and to influence its access to world banking and credit institutions.
Day-to-day operations were handled by David Denehy, a senior adviser on Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department, and a former official with the International Republican Institute.
The group drew public scrutiny when leaks from the State Department revealed the program was outsourced to BearingPoint, a private corporation specializing in discreet management whose previous experience included overseeing the "emergent" economic development in former USSR countries and the privatization of gold mines in Kazakhstan, rather than being administered by career State Department staffers or contracted via a bid process.
[1] The group was disbanded after little more than a year when its mission had become controversial and at cross-purposes with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's initiatives for working with Iran and Syria to stabilize Iraq.
The dissolution of the group was interpreted at the time in media reports as an indication that "hardliners" on Iran in the Bush government had lost their influence, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice steered the country away from militaristic policy planning and towards diplomacy.