This is an initiative around which all countries can and should rally.

When I reached the Stockholm branch of Terrafem, a support organization for rape survivors, a volunteer told me that in her many years of experience, Sweden s police, prosecutors, and magistrates had never mobilized in pursuit of any alleged perpetrator in ways remotely similar to their pursuit of Assange.

Iran expects the new regimes to rally behind it in radically changing the region s strategic equation through a policy of confrontation with the US and Israel, while Turkey expects the new regimes to follow constructive policies of peace and security.