This is purportedly a video of Ramin Mehmanparast (1, 2), IRI’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, being attacked and spat on in NY, during the current visit to the UN. I cannot make out the face, but you can make out the attire typical of many IRI officials visiting the West with the designer suit and a collarless white shirt. He seems surrounded by a small but aggressive crowd with a few traffic cops in the midst, as they are wandering from one side of the street to the other and back. You can hear those near the camera describing what is happening. Around 24 sec you see someone run in front of the crowd in the middle of the street, apparently spitting at Mehmanparast. Around min 1:20 you see a guy in a white shirt landing a kick from behind. Around min 2:05 there’s a woman trying to hit him several times with something in her hand. Towards the end, as the police are escorting him to their car, he is hit from behind. Around min 2:25 you see a couple of people waving Syrian flags.
http://www.youtube.com/v/YbiRLn3HqZ4&NR=0
These scenes of chasing and hitting the spokesman through NY traffic remind one of scenes from the post-election 2009 protests with security police chasing and beating protesters and passersby in Tehran streets.
