Iran...and the Events That Led to Neda's Death Part 1

Trailer: June 19th, Iran...and the events that led to Neda's death

Part 1

source: NedaSoltan
November 17, 2009

At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial

presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha

Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death --

filmed on a camera phone, then uploaded to the Web -- quickly

became an international outrage, and Soltan became the face of a

powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government's hold

on power.

In A Death in Tehran, FRONTLINE revisits the events of last

summer, shedding new light on Neda's life and death and the

movement she helped inspire.

In response to the international outcry over Neda's death --

including President Obama's confirmation that he'd seen the

"heartbreaking" video on YouTube -- the regime set about

attempting to rewrite the story, pointing a finger at the CIA and

outside agitators, the same forces they blamed for the mass street

protests and allegations of vote rigging that led to the greatest

upheaval in Iran since the revolution of 1979. FRONTLINE uncovers

some video of Neda's killer -- a member of the Basij militia who'd

been brought into Tehran by the regime's Revolutionary Guards to

stamp out the "Green Revolution." A medical doctor in the crowd

who had watched Neda die now watched as the crowd considered its

own violence against the Basij militia member:

"They started to discuss what to do with him," the doctor

recalled. "They grabbed his wallet, took out his ID card and

started shouting, 'He is a Basiji member; he is one of them,' and

started swearing and cursing him, and he was begging for people

not to harm him or kill him. ... They believed the police wouldn't

do anything to him as the Basiji are really powerful and he would

have easily have got away, so in all of the chaos they decided to

release him."

The Iranian government admits 11 protesters were killed on June

20, but doctors from three Tehran hospitals confirmed at least 34.

Other bodies were buried by security forces without first being

identified. In October, the regime tried to script the end of the

story for Neda. But instead, Neda's mother made a very public

stand. The government offered her financial help if she would

blame Neda's death on opponents of the regime. All she had to do

was to agree to call Neda a "martyr" for the Islamic Republic. But

she refused, telling FRONTLINE: "Neda died for her country not so

I could get a monthly income from the Martyr Foundation. If these

officials say Neda was a martyr, why do they keep wiping off the

word 'martyr' which people write in red on her gravestone?"

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[akdma1]

, e.g. Sudan. Now, where are your "Islamic values" no my friend your values are flawed, you may preach to some desperate people around the world and some of the unfortunates may get trapped in your kind of dogma in the hope to get out of their miseries. They may be drawn to your way because of the atrocities that are happening around the world, some of them are committed by Israel & U.S. But for others that can see beyond that, it's obvious you're just trying to hide behind some made-up values.

[akdma1]

So, what's exactly Islamic value, head cover? beard? ..... now to make it very simple, as you mentioned, the problem with your brand of Islam is that you rather to put your mind into a vacuum room- virtually empty, because you know that it's hard to think, so you choose not to think and get your Islamic values from your like-minded leaders, which we can see the result. You're talking about Israel, have you ever thought about million of Muslims killed by other Muslim

[akdma1]

So, what's exactly Islamic value, head cover? beard? ..... now to make it very simple, as you mentioned, the problem with your brand of Islam is that you rather to put your mind into a vacuum room- virtually empty, because you know that it's hard to think, so you choose not to think and get your Islamic values from your like-minded leaders, which we can see the result. You're talking about Israel, have you ever thought about million of Muslims killed by other Muslim, e.g. Sudan

[MrFolkpunjabi]

@akdma1 its very simple..to diffrenshieat.let me give u my own example rather then geting in long arguement serise. if I m not respecting Islamic values. And I call myself Muslim. then its lie. I am not a muslim then. And all those nations who have left their Islamic values they will be crushed off by America and Israel. And they would not be muslim any more they will be just bloody losser.

[akdma1]

3. 3- You reserve the right of the free speech for yourself- which I agree and I believe similar to life its a god-given right and no one can take it away from you- even God did not take it away from Adam (see the relevant verses in Quran). So, what makes me and perhaps others wonder is that, you feel entitled to your right to express your opinion freely about a citizen of another country, but in your view that very citizen is not entitled to the free speech in her own country.

[akdma1]

2. continued......

but when it comes to the principles not the issues like the look and head cover, they stick to the principles as long as it takes. The main issue of your brand of Islam is that you only check out the appearance and almost no credit or review of the principles of the very same people that you hand out judgement about.

[akdma1]

2. You feel free to judge about a person/ people and don't leave it to the "in front of Allah for the day of judgement" as you noted in your comments about Neda "She dsnt looks like a representer of an Islamic country or socity". I have lived in Iran for most of my life, extensively traveled through the region, and in the west. I know people that in your account did not appear to represent the "Islamic country/society"

[akdma1]

@MrFolkpunjabi Let's put it this way,

1. Give me one islamic nation that enjoys prosperity without separation of the church and the state- as a hint: don'e look for it there is none.

[MrFolkpunjabi]

so ..@akdma1... if u see something abt me. then you do have right to comment abt tht without any hasitation. As i did..

[MrFolkpunjabi]

@akdma1 ok I have been convenced that I am an ignorent, and idiot. but can you prove wht u said in front of Allah. well leave it on the day of the judgement. i only said that, wht i felt. And i have right to express my veiws as i feel. and whtever u said was just an emotional speach beyound the truth. and one more thing u knows nothing abt punjabies. so dnt talk abt that wich u dnt know. always come up with facts and figurs.