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Ali is a typical college student. There are dirty dishes stacked in the sink in his studio apartment in Tehran. A bedroll is tucked against the wall, and textbooks are scattered across an office desk. Tom Waits and Metallica CDs, along with a DVD of the Hollywood movie "Almost Famous," are piled up next to a digital entertainment center. A slim 22-year-old engineering student with wire-rim glasses, Ali likes to hang out with his girlfriend between classes.
In the past few weeks, however, he hasn't had much spare time because he's been organizing a series of street protests against Iran's hard- line clerical government. Ali meets daily with fellow student ...