Post-election Iran

Despite a clampdown on the media, pictures of the protests in Iran are still emerging. Many visiting reporters have been expelled, and foreign correspondents and Iranians have been banned from reporting the opposition protests.

But ordinary Iranians have taken their place, taking pictures and video with their cellphones, and posting them on social networking or media sharing sites like Facebook, Flickr and Twitter's photo site TwitPic.

Those pictures are now being distributed to the mainstream media through established wire services like Reuters, the Associated Press or AFP. They are also using many pictures distributed by the Mousavi campaign's own media operation, Ghalam News. The accompanying captions usually have the word "alleged" in them.

The Iranian authorities are trying to stop the flow of amateur pictures from reaching the outside world by blocking social networking websites. But many Iranians still manage to bypass the censorship, even if the pre-election flood of amateur pictures has now been reduced to a trickle.

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