Public confessions made by detained opposition activists in Iran are being made a mockery of by anti-government protesters. To illustrate how farcical they found the confessions, Web users from around the world, including a pet cat, a "crazy Jew from Israel", a brainwashed bald manikin and a CIA agent, have made their own confessions, all 'owning up' to instigating the attempted velvet revolution following the 12 June election. Read more and see their confessions...

Iranian blogger "Bolts" posted this commentary on her blog on Monday. It was translated into English by "Sanli".

Sara, one of our Observers in Iran, explained to us a few weeks ago how Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opponent

This footage was filmed by residents on a balcony in Tehran. In the street directly below, the police shoot down a protestor. Watch the video...

Thousands of opposition supporters gathered for Friday Prayers in Tehran last week. Most of the slogans on show were anti-Ahmadinejad, but there were also, strangely, many people demonstrating against Putin and Medvedev's Russia. Read more...

Thousands of opposition supporters gathered after Friday Prayers at Tehran University today. These are the first images to emerge from the event. See the video.

So brutal was the post-election crackdown that anti-Ahmadinejad protesters no longer dare to organise outdoor demonstrations. They have not given up the fight, however. One of our Observers in the country, Sara, took part in "operation blackout" on Tuesday. Armed with an iron and hair strengtheners, she tried, along with many others, to cut the president's televised speech with an electricity blackout. Read more...

Clotilde Reiss, a young French woman who taught French at the University of Isfahan, was stopped by the police in Tehran on July 1. A close friend of hers responds to accusations calling Reiss a spy. Marina El Khoury graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politique in Lille the same year as Clotilde Reiss. The 23-year-old Lebanese woman has set up a Facebook group asking for her friend’s release. Read more...

Here's one of the pictures we received direct from Thursday's demonstrations in Tehran. While the media is banned from reporting events in Iran, the protestors continue to defy the information clampdown by flooding the web with amateur photos and videos.

The Iranian authorities are trying very hard to control information about the post-election protests. Hani, one of our reformist Observers in Tehran, however, has managed to send us this webcam video, explaining how they are going about it. See her video...