VIDEO: Protests In Iran - June 15-16, 2009


Doctors and nurses protest outside of a hospital in Tehran.



Rally in Tehran against Ahmadinejad.



More protesters take to the streets of Tehran.


The crowd carries an unconscious, bloodied protester and lays him on the ground. Near Azadi Square in Tehran.


Police repeatedly beat and drag a protester across the ground.


Riot police beat a woman with batons; scenes of several more policeman running and riding motorbikes through the streets.


Police beat a protester to unconsciousness in someone's backyard and then flee the scene; people passing by take note of the unconscious body lying on the ground and seek out help.



This video shows one of those wounded during today's demonstrations in Iran at Freedom Square, according to McClatchy.


Members of the Basij militia shoot into the air and then into a crowd of protesters in Tehran; protesters set buildings on fire in retaliation. From UK Channel 4 News.


Demonstrators help a fellow protester who has been shot in the leg.


Mousavi addresses a crowd of his supporters in Tehran on June 15. From Think Progress.


Iranians protest on June 15 in Tehran, including reformist politician Mohammad Reza Khatami. From bbc.co.uk/persian.


Tehran street clashes -- a policeman's motorcycle is taken and burnt, while others in the crowd help him out of the throng and give him water. In Italian.


Tens of thousands of supporters of Iran's opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, have defied a ban to attend a rally in Tehran after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide victory in the presidential elections. Tim Marshall of Sky News in the UK reports.


More footage of the Monday protests in Iran from Sky News.


Crowds rally and chant in Azadi Square in Tehran in support of Mousavi.




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