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Neda Agha-Soltan, Young Woman Murdered in Iran: She is Voice of Freedom

Posted by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, Deputy Managing Editor, Columnist in International.
Jun 22nd, 2009 | Comments

It is said, in Persian, her name, Neda, means ‘the voice.’

And by ordering this young voice to be killed in the streets, the “supreme leader” Ayatolla has made sure by murdering someone idealistic and good… her voice will now live forever, rather than ever die away.

According to reports, the pre-meditated murder of Neda was carried out by a member of the Basij, a volunteer paramilitary organization of hotheads who long to be important but failed to make the grade to be accepted into the Iranian Revolutionary Guards– yet this group of wanna-bes take swill and orders from IRG under the direction of the not so “Supreme Leader” of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini… now, dubbed, The Supreme Murderer of Iran.

A Middle East news Web site, Al Bawaba, reported that Neda was pronounced dead two minutes after the footage here was taken. The footage is heartbreaking, not only how easily the thin body envelope is fatally pierced, but the literal wailing of the men, young and middle aged, trying to save Neda.

They were not able to save her, but her name will live in blessed memory forever. And those who tried to save her, also will live staggered, but likely even stronger. Ask any Nam vet who saw a member of his platoon blown away before his eyes.

From International J Post:

“According to Al Bawaba, “The video has since seen a wide global circulation and developed into a rallying cry for the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Iran who have disputed President Ahmadinejad’s June 12 victory over rival Mir Hossein Mousavi.”

Neda, has been dubbed, “the voice of the Iranian revolution,” by users of social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook.”

CODA
Some reports have Neda b. 1982, others say she was sixteen years old. What is certain is her murder. As the fog of early reporting clears, we will know more facts soon.

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shannonlee

"Remember the Alamo"

FreeIran

http://www.wethepeoplepolitics.com/for-neda-we-...

eejays

While crying on the death of an innocent galvanized by the most intelligent stupid of all times-mosavi, it should be understood that there are a lot of internal and external actors who want this movement to be coloured with blood. If mosavi does not believe in the Iranian regime, why he is asking for re-elections. Those who have done some thing with elections would do the same thing again. Who is gonna stop them. Mosavi knows it very well, but his intentions are only to spread chaos and instability.

shannonlee

eejays...this is much bigger than Mosavi.

mal68

Just a question.
How much of this is the Kuwati baby incubator story all over again?
Back during Desert Shield we were treated to a young woman testifying before the UN about Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from their incubators in order to send the incubators back to Iraq.
It later turned out that the woman was the daughter of a Kuwaiti diplomat and that she had not even been in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and the incubator theft never took place.
It was a story cooked up by the advertising agency hired by the Kuwaiti government to sell the war to the US public.

No much of the reporting from Iran are low quality vid's and audio with zero second sourcing.
As such they have the veracity of a rumor or gossip.
If it was any other subject it would never be reported as fact and would always be accompanied by the label "unconfirmed or unverifiable report" from a source who's veracity we can not confirm.

DLS

"How much of this is the Kuwati baby incubator story all over again?"

I had the same thought over the weekend, given all the emotional hype we're being treated to about this and so many other details (rivaling the silly childishness about the "social networks" and Twitter, etc.).

There's nothing we can do and little we should really be doing other than wait and see how this all ends.

DLS

"How much of this is the Kuwati baby incubator story all over again?"

With the emotionalism and sensationalism, sadly, we've not all outgrown this. More specifically, in addition, this mainly-young-people's "cause" has been adopted by the lefty kiddies here (along with their favorite techno-toys).

Fortunately, Obama (even though subject to attack by the Left as well as by the Right) is behaving okay.

ordinarysparrow

Thanks Dr. E. . . glad that was not Dorian!. . . cause the energetic did not seem like him. . .

sorry Dorian if you read this, thought you where DLS and was trying to figure out "this" side of you for you are always heartfull . . .
river

archangel

Dear Sparrow, I think you meant another commenter? Dorian is D.E. Dewind.

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You can edit your own comment if you wish, if it has an error.

dr.e

JillyDybka

The LA Times has an article about her on their site, "Family, friends mourn Iranian woman whose death was caught on video."

kandii

why did u kill neda?
she was just trying to strive for whats right and help her country!!!!!!!

JSpencer

DLS, when innocent people are killed emotional reactions are normal and appropriate... among those who are capable of empathy that is. Expressions of feeling don't require the intellect to be disengaged either, although that's a common misconception. As for your continuing delusion about being the voice of maturity, it's not as entertaining as it used to be. Any chance you could work up a new act?

systerwoody

My heartfelt prayers go out to Neda Soltani's family for their loss & sacrifice. Like many of our American Military, may she not die in vain, but may freedom ring--loud & clear throughout Iran. Good night twitterverse!

eejays

There were 8 security persons of Iran, who were also killed during the same very violence. But world chose the murder of an innocent girl only to exploit and incite emotions against Iran. Those security men were also the brothers of sisters like Neda Solatni. Dont know why moderate voices never rise for those.

eejays

Marwa al-Sherbini, a 32-year-old Egyptian national, stabbed to death in front of court. Where is the Independent voice and of course the concern of Europe. The European market sees no buyer for this piece of news.

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