presidential elections

Five weeks after Afghanistan's presidential elections, it's still unclear who will lead the country. Afghan and international officials are now hoping to break the logjam by agreeing to review ballots at about 10 percent of the nearly 3,100 polling stations flagged as suspicious by a U.N.-backed watchdog.

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Thousands of U.S. Marines are digging in for a drawn-out campaign in southern Afghanistan aimed at ousting the Taliban.

It's the largest operation launched by American troops since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001. The immediate goal is to drive out insurgents before next month's presidential elections.

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.

Tehran is bracing for more demonstrations after hundreds of thousands of marchers took to the streets to protest agast the official results of last week's presidential elections.

Many in the crowd recalled the street demonstrations of 1978, which eventually forced the Shah of Iran to abdicate in favor of what became the Islamic revolution.

In Afghanistan, the election campaign kicks off this week for next month's presidential elections. There are dozens of candidates on the ballot, trying to unseat President Hamid Karzai.

The campaign gets underway amid concerns over voter apathy and serious security problems in many parts of the country.

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