fierce clashes occurred near tehran university. the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. the demonstrators are protesting against the alleged imprisonment of two opposition leaders. their current whereabouts are not clear. and i government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. -- anti-government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. now the latest from the biggest technology fair. >> the model is work and life with the clout. storing data and software programs online rather than on this computer hardware. numerous products and services are capturing a visitor interest. some of the products will be in your local shop soon and others will take awhile to get there. >> tablet pc's with touchscreens and computing capacity are the attraction. this is the first one to run on the android operating system. the great hope of the rivals of ipad. 1 million tablet pc's are said to be sold in germany alone. the prospect pleases manufacturers and telecom companies alike. >> we're very happy with our growth rate. there has been a 30-fold increase c

fierce clashes occurred near tehran university. the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. the demonstrators are protesting against the alleged imprisonment of two opposition leaders. their current whereabouts are not clear. and i government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. -- anti-government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. now the latest from the biggest technology fair. >> the model is work and life with the clout. storing data and software programs online rather than on this computer hardware. numerous products and services are capturing a visitor interest. some of the products will be in your local shop soon and others will take awhile to get there. >> tablet pc's with touchscreens and computing capacity are the attraction. this is the first one to run on the android operating system. the great hope of the rivals of ipad. 1 million tablet pc's are said to be sold in germany alone. the prospect pleases manufacturers and telecom companies alike. >> we're very happy with our growth rate. there has been a 30-fold increase c

university student and leaving over a dozen injured. >> government sanctioned the reports and blamed the protestors and the west for supporting the demonstration. >> they condemned the illegal protest in tehran they are showed executions of two men who opposed president ahmadinejad. he is showing us the broadcast and competing coverage from dube ai outside of iran. >> are they able to see the alternate version? >> only on the web. >> in staford, iranian expert and author of the book on the shah, is convinced that the current regime will lose. >> internet and social network and facebook and twitter, with satellite technology all of these have made our world a much smaller place . very inhospitable territory for despotism . those who have a monopoly of truth. >> back with us. professor what are you hearing from the other countryall -- about all of the changes. >> we are all looking at very similar sources now. but what is interesting to me, when i watch satellite tv available to me here in pran fran. i watch arabic tv. it is citizen journalism with the main stream journalism. protests are spreading and that the same narrative that began in tunisia and spread to egypt and going to now in libya

individuals, she spends her time between london and tehran with several essays as does muhammed who is one man, an institution he teaches at the university of southern california. some penetrating analysis. and the third person is hamid dabashi. his characterization of the movement and some of his political writings have been the most insightful and important on the green movement, particularly his observation. first and foremost a civil rights movement that seeks to transform iran he a process of reform, not necessarily a revolution. he made one important observation in the summer of 2009 that when i first read it i strongly disagreed with. i thought it was wishful didn't when he said they green movement and politics is setting a standard for the region. it is transforming the politics of a broader arab and islamic world. completely shaping the morals. but i sort of thought about that when i first read it and looked to egypt and north africa and just did not see it. a year-and-a-half later i think he deserves credit for being a very observant because the model we saw coming out of the green movement in the summer of 2009 was effectively

university -- the first medical college where doctors trained while they healed patients. it had an observatory of the heavens. and here to this day on the palace of justice in tehran there is a sculpture of has rah, the just who was the king in iran in the period when this academy was the world center of knowledge. so people were coming from india, from greece, there were christians there and jews and persians all sharing knowledge about the world and sharing, in particular, knowledge of sugar. sugar was also considered a medicine. they actually gave sugar to people to try to heal some of their ills, although they noticed that it wasn't too good for your teeth. the key next step comes this 600s and 700s a.d.. can anyone remember what, the huge change in the spread of knowledge, the spread of information that came in the 600s and 700s a.d.? the big -- the new religion that was spreading all over the world. >> christians. >> no, we had the christians already. yes, sir, in the back row. >> hinduism? >> no, hinduism existed already. >> islamsome. >> islam! islam comes to the fore in the 600s, and as the -- as islam spreads across iran and spreads down -- crash -- into

spent her time between london and tehran has several essays in the book, as does mohammed said he me, which is one man sorted into the tuition who teaches at the university of southern california and has written the most intriguing and papal analysis of the green movement, several in the book. in the third person as multiple essays is transcendent. in his characterization of the movement -- some of his writings, political writings have been the most insightful and important on the green movement, particularly observations of the green movement is first and foremost a civil rights movement that seeks to transform iran via process every form, not necessarily revolution, although those two lines are becoming blurred today. he made one important observation in the summer of 2009, that when i first read it, strongly disagree. i thought it was wishful thinking on the part of hamid dabashi when he said the green movement and politics emerging under iran and the summer of 2009 is setting a standard for the region and it is transforming the politics of the broader arab and islamic world. it is completely shaped the moral compass orientation. and i thought about t