All of the following about the role of technology in Iran is correct EXCEPT

a. the Iranian regime places great importance on scientific education in part because of security concerns
b. Iran's top high school graduates gravitate toward the sciences because it is seen as the cutting edge of modernity.
c. the access of urban households to cell phones and the Internet decreased following the 2009 protests.
d. Iran's nuclear and space program benefit from the regime's interest in scientific and technological education.
e. scientific education is highly valued because of the belief that the key to recapturing the lost grandeur of the Muslim Civilization is through technology.

c