How brazen, bereft of credibility and worthy of unfettered international censure is the Iranian regime? This says it all:
Iranian state television has made a documentary about the death of Neda Agha Soltan, a young Iranian woman who was shot dead during the June postelection protests in Tehran, suggesting she was an agent of the United States and Britain who staged her own death.
Neda’s last moments were filmed on a cell phone and watched by millions of people around the world, becoming a symbol of democratic resistance to the regime.
The state-television documentary suggests the video of Neda’s dying moments merely depicted her pouring blood on her own face from a special bottle she was carrying. Later, the documentary alleges that 27-year-old Neda was shot dead in the car that was taking her to a hospital.
The only thing missing from this report — how did they leave the charge out? — is that she was really shot dead in a car by Israeli agents.
Just wait: that’ll be claimed soon, too.
(You heard it here first).
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés of TMV, was one of the first to write about Neda’s murder. See here…
Claims that Neda’s death was faked are as credible as a claim that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad belongs to a synagogue in Boca Raton and owns a bagel factory in Queens.
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A picture of Neda before she was murdered.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.