Iran is no longer my world. It hasn’t been so in close to 30 years. My family does not live there. My friends are not from there. Still, while I was looking at this picture of Neda Agha-Sultan, the young Iranian girl, who died as part of the democratic uprising, I felt compelled to do something. This tribe of young Iranians desperately need the world to pay attention to them.

It is amazing that they have against all odds formed a large and influential movement – that they have connected with one another – and somehow connected with me and everyone I know.

Iranian Democracy will be a non-for-profit release featuring Sour Grapes and Burning Out from Ashes, and some new and unreleased tracks. Interestingly theses songs dramatically speak to what the crowds on the streets must have felt. How do I know? Well, I was there 30 years ago when it all happened for the first time.

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