WITH MUCH of the foreign media unable to cover events in Iran, some of the most dramatic pictures have come from the mobile phone. The footage – grainy and jerky – is the visual counterpart to the tweets, e-mails and messages on social networking sites that have helped to convey a measure of the turmoil.
One disturbing clip shows a woman, apparently called Neda, lying in a pool of blood. Many Iranians have drawn the attention of the world’s media to the footage, available on YouTube.
An Iranian who e-mailed the Guardian, wrote: “I’m writing to ask that you take the time to reference a young girl’s needless death . . . I didn’t have the stomach to post the video, she literally dies on camera.”
Mobile phone footage also shows Iranians setting fire to pictures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. – (Guardian service)