Since the disputed presidential elections in Iran over the summer, there have been a series of protests, the latest, on Sunday, ending in at least 8 fatalities. How does today’s unrest in Iran compare – if it does at all – to the demonstrations which preceded the Iranian Revolution 30 years ago in 1979? We talk with Baqer Moin, the former head of the BBC Persian Service, and Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies at Columbia University, about whether the country is headed for another revolution.

Launched missiles and secret nuclear facilities: Iran's had a busy few days. Now, they are headed into a week of negotiations with world leaders to explain themselves. Most notably, they are going before the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. We talk with Gary Sick, senior reseach scholar at Columbia University; and Baqer Moin, former head of the Persian service for our partners, the BBC. Sick takes a look at what world leaders want to see from Iran, while Moin considers the situation from the Iranian people's point of view.

In his speech yesterday, President Obama condemned what he called the Iranian authorities' “unjust suppression” of protests against the contested election that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's to power. President Obama added that the world had been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments, and mourned the loss of innocent lives. It was the strongest statement the president has made on the crisis in Iran; there hasn't been an official Iranian reaction yet. For more, we turn to Baqer Moin, the former head of the BBC's Persian service, and author of Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah.

The streets of Iran seem quiet for the moment, but Iranian Americans gathered in the streets of U.S. cities. One of the biggest gatherings was in Los Angeles, which almost 500,000 Iranian-Americans call home. Siamak Kalhor has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years and is a radio host for two technology programs on KIRN, an AM radio station in Los Angeles that broadcasts exclusively in Farsi, 24- hours a day. He has opened up his phone lines to callers who want to talk about Iran. He joins The Takeaway to talk about what he’s heard from these callers and about his own feelings about the crisis. Also joining the conversation is Baqer Moin, former head of the BBC's Persian language service. He grew up in Iran, and is the author of the book Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah..

We’re following the latest news from Iran. Authorities in Iran now acknowledge that the number of votes "cast" in 50 cities exceeded the actual number of voters. This comes after the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asserted that the vote count in the presidential election was fair. Thousands of Iranians clashed with police as they defied an ultimatum from Khamenei to end the protests. We are joined by Robert Dreyfuss, a contributing editor for The Nation, who recently returned from covering the Iranian elections and Baqer Moin, former head of the BBC's Persian language service and author of the book Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah.