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Jack Straw has implictly admitted the EU's failure in affecting the public opinion in Iran. But it's also very promising about the future.
And we should help Iranians to make informed choices for themselves by helping improve the flow of information into the country. Iranians are highly-educated, broad-minded and eager to form their own opinions on matters of vital interest. The young in particular instinctively grasp the potential of globalisation and want Iran to emerge from behind its self-imposed isolation; Iran has more web journals per capita than any other country in the world. At the moment the regime tries to maintain control on information flows into Iran through its monopoly of state controlled broadcasting, or for example by blocking independent sources of information, as it did recently with the BBC Persian Service's web-site.
So we in Europe need to communicate better with the Iranian people. Our message is: that we want them to enjoy the benefits of civil nuclear power; that on the nuclear dossier we are concerned only by those fuel activities which would allow the regime to acquire a nuclear bomb; and that we support their aspirations for a freer, more democratic, and prosperous future.
And I urge my European colleagues to take the time to talk to Iranian journalists or to news services which broadcast to Iran. This is not a job for governments alone, although we can help. Iranians also need access to independent, authoritative information. So I encourage international organisations and NGOs who follow Iranian affairs to make their reports available in Farsi on the internet. And we in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe need to think about whether there is more we can do to ensure that reliable and trusted news services are able to broadcast in all media, in Persian, to Iranians.
When he visited Iran a couple of years ago, the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas said the next Iranian revolution would be a women's revolution - and we are now seeing signs of that, writes Hossein Derakhshan.
While young men have become ever more apathetic, partly because of the high rate of unemployment, young women have a vital social and political cause to fight for.
The battle is for equal gender rights and opportunities, from all-encompassing issues to smaller ones such as the right to watch matches in a football stadium.
There are no laws banning women from the football stadiums, but a ban is effectively enforced - maybe because it has not been challenged by enough women over the past two decades. Now some are trying to change all that.
Iran wants to do enrichment in its soil and the West doesn't accept it. So I have a suggestion:
What if Iran declares one of its free trade zones, such as Gheshm, as an International zone completely governed by the UN with Iranian's co-operation. And then they do what aver Nuclear research they want to do there, under the full inspection of the IAEA, while it's still inside Iran?
There is no clear line separating people from the government in Iran.
This is a big conceptual mistake many make these days, especially the Bush administration to cover its failure to design a concrete and substantive policy on how to deal with the complex political system in Iran.
Without the oil revenue, a dysfunctional state like Iran with a high unemployment rate and a broken economy, could not possibly survive.
In the absence of a healthy economy with a functional private section, millions of peoples' lives depend on the government and while they are directly or indirectly benefiting from the oil revenue, it's unfair to expect them to suddenly turn against their government, no matter how repressive it is.
Separating ordinary Iranians from "Mullahs" is only possible on paper, so are the resulted strategies and policies.