BBC Interviews Neda's Fiance, Caspian Makan

Neda Agha-Soltan, was buried on Sunday. Her fiance, Caspian Makan, told BBC Persian TV about the circumstances of Neda's death. "She was near the area, a few streets away, from where the main protests were taking place, near the Amir-Abad area. She was with her music teacher, sitting in a car and stuck in traffic. She was feeling very tired and very hot. She got out of the car for just for a few minutes. And that's when it all happened. That's when she was shot dead. Eyewitnesses and video footage of the shooting clearly show that probably Basij paramilitaries in civilian clothing deliberately targeted her. Eyewitnesses said they clearly targeted her and she was shot in the chest. She passed away within a few minutes. People tried to take her to the nearest hospital, the Shariati hospital. But it was too late. We worked so hard to get the authorities to release her body. She was taken to a morgue outside Tehran. The officials from the morgue asked if they could use parts of her corpse for body transplants for medical patients. They didn't specify what exactly they intended to do. Her family agreed because they wanted to bury her as soon as possible. We buried her in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran. They asked us to bury her in this section where it seemed the authorities had set aside spaces for graves for those killed during the violent clashes in Tehran last week. On Monday afternoon, we had planned to hold a memorial service at the mosque. But the authorities there and the paramilitary group, the Basij, wouldn't allow it because they were worried it would attract unwanted attention and they didn't want anymore trouble. The authorities are aware that everybody in Iran and throughout the whole world knows about her story. So that's why they didn't want a memorial service. They were afraid that lots people could turn up at the event. So as things stand now, we are not allowed to hold any gatherings to remember Neda."

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Neda
• BBC
• Caspian
• Makan
• finace
• neda's
• fiance
• Agha-Soltan
• agha
• soltan
• iran
• tehran

[johndude262]

I wish it was Ahmadinejad the one that was shot. He is nothing but a worthless piece of shit and anybody who supports him is the same the thing. Neda should be immortalized as a hero for standing up against Ahmadinejad and his band of Islamo fascists.

[asterismxx]

Obama has condemned the violence - what more do you want him to do, invade their country?! He is being cautious, and rightly so, given the history of the U.S. meddling in Iranian politics.

[HoosierMF]

@PushingD Politics is bullshit in every country. Democracy doesn't exist anywhere

[PushingD]

@asterismxx Remember how Obama treated Ahmadinejad as if he was somekind of hero when he came to USA? Obama is a spineless appeaser. He figured if he just kissed Ahmadinejad's ass, the violence would stop but he just made it worse by meeting with Ahmadinejad, therefore legitamizing his stolen presidency.

[fuckallmuslimsss]

Probably fake propaganda, if it realy was her fiance he would be fuck that am still doing it.

[CuteLittleBabyGirl]

so sa d:(

[followwheremarygoes]

@asterismxx obama is a tool of the zionist vatican conspiracy that the new world order is fulfilling.

[adminjohn]

آن که صعود کرد و آن که سقوط کرد؛ آن که رها شد و آن که گرفتار شد

[lamalo80]

@Sonorite you always look the same on pictures and videos?

[babaali69]

به خدا قاسم که این کار از طرف همان هایی است که برای ندا عزاداری میکنند

[sohrab2012]

چگونگی ترور دکتر سامی و احمد خمینی, دستور حذف حاج احمد آقا را آقای فلاحیان به من ابلاغ کرد آیت‌‏الله مصباح یزدی محسنی اژه‌ای و بادامچیان حاج آقا خوشوقت هم از بیت رهبری بودند. سعید امامی

[JoeZyzyx]

I feel for her father. Every Basij should be hunted down and executed unless they reveal the one who did it and he is executed.