Iran doctor tells of Neda's death (complete interview, part 1 of 2)

The doctor who tried to save an Iranian protester as she bled to death on a street in Tehran has told the BBC of her final moments.

Dr Arash Hejazi, who is studying at a university in the south of England, said he ran to Neda Agha-Soltan's aid after seeing she had been shot in the chest.

Despite his attempts to stop the bleeding she died in less than a minute, he said.

Video of Ms Soltan's death was posted on the internet and images of her have become a rallying point for Iranian opposition supporters around the world.

Dr Hejazi also told how passers-by then seized an armed Basij militia volunteer who appeared to admit shooting Ms Soltan.

Dr Hejazi said he had not slept for three nights following the incident, but he wanted to speak out so that her death was not in vain.

He doubted that he would be able to return to Iran after talking openly about Ms Soltan's killing.

(from a BBC article)

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• Neda
• Agha
• Soltan
• Arash
• Hejazi

[d0nj03]

#3. He's talking like someone afraid to be disbelieved, thus he points out unnecessary details, like the one that you can find Salehi street on the map.

#4. His story about the poor Basij crying "I didn't want to shoot her" and being caught by civilians is complete horse crap. No other source has mentioned any such thing in the past week and if it had really happened it would've definitely been mentioned because Neda has become a huge figure and it matters a lot if her killer has been caught.

[GangstaFlame]

#4. It's not because no one else has talked about it that it has not happened. It sounds totally true to me. One could have thought that, in that situation, people would have killed the guy, but they feared for their life. Have you ever lived under dictatorship? You don't see things the same way in that context. They kept his name, though, and I guess he has not slept too well since then.

[d0nj03]

Why lose any sleep when not only has his name never been made public anywhere, his very existence in the role he played wasn't ever mentioned by the media at all?

I've watched it again and I must say I'm less convinced of my theory now, but I'd still assign it a probability of over 50% and bet that he's lying rather than telling the truth.

[GangstaFlame]

It's OK, I wasn't trying to convince you, I only gave counterarguments. I don't know the truth either, I was not there. My feeling is that he's completely sincere, though.

To answer your question: if people have taken photos of him and have kept his ID card, he has good reasons to lose sleep, in my opinion. But in today's context, they can't do much against him, I guess. Gathering around Neda's tomb gets you arrested, so forget about going to police to file a complaint against the murderer.

[ardeshirkabir]

You're a jerk.

[picenissimo]

you are a dumb scumbag and you are full of shit: hope you die painfully.

[MrArzhang1]

Dr Hejazi

When one Persian being sacrificed for the sake of patriotic reason , it would absolutely unreasonable,disgrace, someone or organisation using late Neda's picture in the twitter ,twitting like an agent for foreign organisation ,

[AtlantaITGirl]

stop interrupting lady anything you say is not important or needed his story is complete on its own

[Wacek4444]

@d0nj03

You stupid gypsy bastard, you just were blind and deaf, not wanting to see the evidence, and you didnt wanted to recognize the truth either of sheer stupidity or because you cant recognize real human being when you see one. Fuckin looser, you're hopeless.

[littlefuzzer]

he is definitely the doctor..you can see him to the right with a white shirt

[00nicklock]

was neda a christian

[AMIRsarkari]

that bastard killed Neda and her family knows all about it

[nightracergangs]

well its very unfortunate wat happened to neda but this guy is lying abit all the riots werent peacefull in tehran in some of those riots people burnt cars buses shops destroyed shit loads of stuff on the streets it was in the news i am not making it up.

[Bahaneh]

YOU KILLED NEDA shame on you

shame on you ,,,disgusting , yes you came to kill Her and Fly back, sure 15 min after you killed neda BBC alreaddddy knew, Arash wonder why,