I spoke over the phone with the bright and well-informed Canadian journalist Terry Galvin. An excerpt of our discussion has been mentioned in his new article “What Iranian Dissidents Need, and why they deserve more from North America’s left.”

In the United States, a debate is raging over whether dissidents in Iran should accept U.S. State Department funds aimed at assisting the regime’s adversaries (Kamangir says it’s foolish to take money from Americans; it just provides the theocracy with another pretext to criminalize dissent).

…”It makes a lot of difference to people in Iran when they see that people outside Iran are trying to help with protests and demonstrations,” Kamangir told me, “but there is also a lot of text and lots of images coming out of Iran every day. I just observe, and then I post things. I don’t really engage in theoretical debates. I just observe.”