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Babak Rahimi, who teaches Iranian and Islamic studies at the University of California, San Diego, has just returned from Iran.

He had been there for several months working on a book about the development of the Internet there. Rahimi talks with David Greene about the upheaval in Iran after the disputed presidential elections.

Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate are keeping up pressure with new protests. Babak Rahimi is a professor of Iranian and Islamic studies at the University of California, San Diego.

He talks from Tehran with Steve Inskeep about what's been going on in the Iranian capital since demonstrations broke out.