The disturbing image of 27 year old innocent bystander Neda Sultan who was shot to death during protests in Iran has shocked the world. We send our prayers and condolences to her family.
Here is a description and a link to the graphic NSFW death video on youtube. Warning this is not a re-enactment the woman in this video was shot in the chest and is seen dying. Viewer discretion advised.
Basij shoots to death a young woman June 20th
At 19:05 June 20th
Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st.
A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes.
The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St.
Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was dubbed the Angel of Freedom after a video which appeared to show her being shot by a government sniper was posted on the internet.
Graphic scenes show Neda – her name means “the call” – walking with her father among demonstrators, then separately when she was shot as well as attempts to save her life.
Online posters of the woman covered in blood quickly emerged, included one modelled on a prominent image of Barack Obama during the last US presidential campaign.
Some online posts speculated the image would rank alongside that of the unnamed man standing in front of a tank in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the summary execution of a Vietnamese Communist prisoner by Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan in 1968.
Footage was posted on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook and was viewed by tens of thousands. Messages of sympathy and outrage flooded the internet following the posting of the videos.
The Iranian authorities have now sent out a circular to mosques banning collective prayers for the woman.[Telegraph Uk]
The Neda Agha Sultan video has truly touched the world. It isn’t every day that we see a country’s internal political struggles displayed before the entire globe. And to witness the fierce bravery a country’s daughters possess at the face of death is more than news, more than a YouTube video that gets great hits, it is revolutionary history played out before our eyes.
When I first saw the Neda Agha Sultan video, it was on CNN. I was in the midst of cleaning my home; my modest little abode in Florida. My American home located in a land that has plenty of political turmoil and conflict. Yet without the need for women to take to the streets at the point of death, simply to have their voices heard. There I was, with vacuum cleaner in one hand, and the remote in the other. I turned the vacuum off and CNN began to tell the story of Neda. Neda Sultan (Neda Soltani, Neda Agha Soltan) her name given in so many varieties across the Internet, yet that name, that means ‘voice’ or ‘the calling’ has truly become the Voice of Iranian women.
We elected Barack Obama, hoping to see a time of peace. We wanted to focus on our own internal struggles, our economy, our housing crisis, and our struggles for civil equality. We wanted to see an end to involvement in the Middle East, to pull out of Iraq, and let the Middle East handle her own issues. Yet as I watch this video of Neda, with her eyes rolled to the side, and her father’s passionate pleas for her to open her eyes and not leave him yet. I wonder what can we do. Is there anything that our country truly can do? Does Barack Obama have the right strategy to just let the Iranian people handle her own political struggles? He is right about one thing. Ahmadinejad cannot stop the voice of the Iranian people. He cannot stop the cries of freedom from being heard around the world. He cannot stop Twitter and YouTube or the impact that the video of one Iranian woman shot in Iran has had upon this nation. [Examiner]
The young woman last minutes of life have been captured and posted on youtube while her image has already become political iconography with posters of Neda’s bloody face used to symbolize change.
Iran’s regime has issued a ban on memorials for a young woman whose death has become the focal point of protests against the clerical regime.
Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was dubbed the Angel of Freedom after a video which appeared to show her being shot by a government sniper was posted on the internet.
Graphic scenes show Neda – her name means “the call” – walking with her father among demonstrators, then separately when she was shot as well as attempts to save her life.Online posters of the woman covered in blood quickly emerged, included one modelled on a prominent image of Barack Obama during the last US presidential campaign.[source]
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