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.
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