In New York on Saturday, a group called "Where is My Vote" held a rally to advocate for the rights of people in Iran.

25-year-old Saharnaz Samaei is a student at New York University.

[Saharnaz Samaei, NYU Student]:
“I’m here in solidarity with the people of Iran. One year has passed from the fraudulent election.”

June 12th marks the one-year anniversary of elections that reinstated Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The elections—marred with accusations of fraud—led to mass protests, followed by a deadly government crackdown and the arrest of hundreds of political dissidents.

[Saharnaz Samaei, NYU Student]:
“So we’re just here to support their rights and ask for the freedom of the political prisoners.”

In New York, rally participants cast a symbolic vote.

[Bitta Mostofi, Co-Founder, Where is My Vote-NY]:
“We’ve asked people to essentially go through the journey of what Iranians have gone through. They enter our rally casting a ballot—an exercise of their civil and political rights.”

But in the capital of Iran on Saturday, there was no such organized event on this anniversary. This mobile phone video uploaded to YouTube shows a heavy police presence in the city center.

[Bitta Mostofi, Co-Founder, Where is My Vote-NY]:
“They’re obviously afraid of what the movement has meant. Otherwise, why do you have busloads of police on every corner of the streets? Why do you begin to ticket people and create an atmosphere in a society that’s fearful?”

But there were some scattered protests throughout the city, including this: what appears to be a spontaneous gathering at Tehran’s Sharif University.

Anti-regime sentiment still brews across the country—and for Iranians overseas—but nothing like a repeat of last year’s Iran protests.

Dr. Torfeh is an expert on Iranian politics and media.

[Dr. Massoumeh Torfeh, Research Associate, University of London]:
“I think that we will see the movement for democratization progressing quite a lot over the next three or four years… And most of the work in the meantime is going to be done over the Internet. It’s not going to be in the streets. But whenever they can they will probably come out and make a little bit of noise.”

Matt Gnaizda, NTD News, New York.

Correction: The original video mislabelled footage from the Iran 2009 protests as "June 2010," this has now been corrected to "June 2009."