By Ali Safavi – March 9, 2011
Originally Published At HuffingtonPost.Com

For the past three weeks, tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets in Iran once again, demanding democracy and an end to the regime. Popular protests continue to haunt the fundamentalist rulers at a critical time in the region’s history. But without offering support to the Iranian people and their main opposition, this critical window of opportunity will be closed, and it will be much harder and too late to deal with the Iranian regime’s threat.

For the West, the expression of legitimate demands for freedoms and human rights across the Middle East has meant that the era of choosing tyrannical stability over democracy as a matter of foreign policy has ended.
To alleviate concerns about the role of religious fundamentalism in the region’s future, Washington should stop talking to the fundamentalist mullahs and start listening to the Iranian people.

Nima Sharif
Once again, it is time for heads of states to address the general assembly meeting of the United Nations in New York.  An opportunity that the overly isolated and mostly hated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not seem to want to miss.

Nima Sharif
Once again, it is time for heads of states to address the general assembly meeting of the United Nations in New York.  An opportunity that the overly isolated and mostly hated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not seem to want to miss.