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Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Tehran May 9, 2011. Websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and countless others were banned shortly after the re-election of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the huge street protests that followed. Seen by the government as part of a "soft war" waged by the enemies of the Islamic Republic, social networking and picture sharing sites were a vital communication tool for the anti-Ahmadinejad opposition -- more than a year before they played a similar rol — Customers use computers at an Internet cafe in Tehran, May 9, 2011. — REUTERS/Caren Firouz

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Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi (2nd R) casts his vote in Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran, June 17, 2005. Iranians began voting for a new president on Friday, with wily pragmatist cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani the front-runner in an unusually tight election denounced by the United States as unfair. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl MN/TZ - RTREOCM

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A statuette of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is displayed next to Apple iPhone 4S packaging at a shop window in Payetakht (Capital) computer centre in northern Tehran January 19, 2012. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS) - RTR2WILP

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