About three weeks ago I got word through third parties that people in solidarity with the Iranian dissidents had been able to smuggle out images of the June protests against the stolen election and I might get access to them. After the ensuing negotiation and assorted reportorial legwork, today, in advance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, I published a tiny fraction of what was made available to me. The photographs are available here, at the Washington Independent.

 Be warned: these photographs, some of which were taken by protesters’ cellphone cameras, are extremely graphic. I spent a lot of time going through a trove of this stuff — I mean hundreds of images — and culling stuff out according to, among other criteria, propriety. I’m not sure that I struck the right balance. But I think they tell a story worth telling, which is a story about a regime’s brutality and a people’s perseverance.