<sod >"Iran is one of the countries where internet usage is most widespread, but in theory none of the software nor most of the hardware that Iranians use for this should have been possible to import," says Dr Michael Axworthy, director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at Exeter University.< eod>< sod > âIran one of the countries where internet usage is most widespread, but in theory none of the software nor most of the hardware that Iranians use for that should have been possible to import,â says Dr Michael Axworthy, Director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at Exter University and a former head of the Iran Section at the Foreign Office.< eod>