Underground Video from Iran Protests

Long story short: After polls closed on Friday, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister and reformist candidate, declared he had won the Iranian presidential election after a campaign filled with the government trying to thwart his grass-roots movement at every turn. Some, oh, 15 minutes later the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency announced that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won reelection in a landslide. The word from pundits and Iran-watchers ever since? If you're going to rig the election, be a bit more subtle about the supposed vote totals, especially when polls going into election day showed everything from a dead heat to Mousavi whupping Ahmadinejad.

Not surprisingly, fed-up Iranians have taken to the streets in protest, with the Iranian government shutting down cell service and social networking sites, banning public gatherings and telling foreign media outlets to get out. The Iranian opposition has become skilled in the tools of new media over the years, though, and has brought a new meaning to citizen journalism: When the only media allowed is that sanctioned by the state, it takes the eyes, ears and cell-phone cameras of the citizenry to get the story out.

Here are some videos to check out:

Raw video of a street clash with the popping of bullets

A girl kicks a member of the Basij and gets beaten with batons in return

Protesters shout "Deatht to dictators!" at massive night time rally

Fox News report on foreign journalists being beaten by Iranian authorities

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