'Too dangerous to go to hospital': a glimpse into Iran's protest crackdown

Speaking to AFP in Istanbul, this 45-year-old engineer who asked to be identified as Farhad -- not his real name -- was caught up in the mass protests that swept his home city of one million people just outside Tehran. With Iran still largely under an internet blackout after weeks of unrest, eyewitness testimony is key for understanding how the events unfolded. Angry demonstrations over economic hardship began late last year and exploded into the biggest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.