Parsi On Obama

What John McCain refuses to understand:

Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, said: “Condemning violence is different from taking sides in Iran's election dispute. People in Iran have told NIAC’s Iranian-American membership that they don’t want the US to get itself involved in the conflict, but they do want to see the government’s use of violence condemned... Calls by Republican lawmakers to explicitly side with a specific candidate or movement in Iran can be extremely harmful to that candidate or movement. If our intention is to help, we have to first listen to the people in Iran rather than to pretend to speak for them without ever having had consulted with them,” Parsi added.

He has an op-ed here.