And here we are again. Many of us Iranians grapple with the feeling that our agency counts for little. The dilemma we face does not stop here. Not only are many of us unrepresented inside Iran, but also among its opposition. For many, the man who is talked about as the main opponent to the Islamic republic, the heir to Iran’s former monarchical tyrant, Reza Pahlavi, is not our cup of tea. The sheer idea of returning to dictatorship and one-man power, secular though he might well be, makes one’s hair stand, let alone returning to him, widely seen as an Israeli stooge, surrounded by anti-democratic forces, patriarchal to his core, inexperienced and distanced from Iranian society by his expat status.