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Hugh Sykes in Iran.

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Eddie Mair | 10:50 UK time, Monday, 29 June 2009

"I hung my camera out to dry after I dropped it in a joob (rainwater drainage channel) in Teheran while being chased by militia on motorbikes, and you can see what I couldn't see over my shoulder here....you may need to run it a couple of times to make sense of it, or go through it clicking frequently on the pause button. And the point of this is that it shows that the violence in Teheran that day (June 13th) was caused by the security forces, not by the peaceful protesters....which, er, may have some resonance in the UK...although our police do not (I believe) attack crowds while riding on motorcycles and wielding batons. It also shows, I hope, that the protests were not caused by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ as some of the Iranian authorities have claimed - I filmed a protest that was already taking place, and I only plucked up the courage to film it after it the protest was well under way."

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