Iran's Revolution on Film
When millions of Iranians flooded the streets in June 2009 to protest the disputed election, it was all recorded--on video cameras and cell phones. For the West, these grainy amateur images were the only witness to the uprising and the brutal crackdown. Recently, a group that has been collecting the digital documentation of last year's protests received 6,000 of these videos from a student leader who fled Iran. Here are some of these remarkable, often disturbing recordings that document a brave, brutal, and heartbreaking history. Many of these images have never been seen before.
University of Kashan, Kashan Province, Nov. 11, 2009
Many of the Green Movement's leaders were students: one of the first places that the Iranian regime attacked once the protests began were universities throughout Iran. As their rooms were ransacked--or burnt--students were beaten and chased out of their dormitories and some were shot. Months later, defiant students returned to protest, holding hands, at the University of Kashan, which has about 6,000 students and is located south of Tehran.
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