From the September 24 Guardian, "Remember our real Iranian friends". In my two cents on l'affaire Ahmadinejad, I revisit a 1977 meeting in Paris organized by Foucault, Sartre, and a group of French intellectuals that I suggest could cast some much-needed light amid the heat of cacaphony and confusion over the Iranian president's US visit--and the visit he's about to make to Venezuela. The article has been translated into Persian (Farsi) and appears on Radiozamaneh.com.