By Zaba Rashan

With the results of the Iranian election between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his opponent, former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, still up in the air it remains to be seen what role that country will play on the world stage and in U.S. foreign policy. Commenting on the election President Barack Obama cited his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo as sending a "clear message" about the "possibility of change" in the Middle East, and lauded what he described as a "robust debate" between opposing parties in Iran. Speaking in terms of potential relations between the U.S. and Iran, Obama stressed that such conversations would "help advance our ability to engage them in new ways." Zaba Rashan reflects on what Obama's speech in Cairo meant to her, a Muslim-American woman of Afghani origin.