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'Anonymous' Captured Neda's Death, and Now the Polk Award
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIn Farsi her name means "voice." Almost instantaneously, screengrabs of 26-year-old student Neda Agha-Soltan, shot through the heart on June 20, 2009, by the Iranian regime's hired guns, became the face of a movement. So powerful was the 40-second video of Neda dying before our eyes, the regime tried to denounce it as a fake. When that didn't work, they blamed Neda's death on unarmed protesters and the CIA. ...
Iran's Protests: Why 2009 Won't Be a Repeat of 1999
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyTen years ago Thursday, the world watched as students from Tehran University in Iran took to the streets in protest. It seemed to many as though history were repeating itself when protests -- which seemed to have been cooling in the face of a government crackdown -- began anew in Iran, both in commemoration of 1999 and in reaction to the recent election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. CNN estimates that Thursday's protest at Tehran University had 2,000-3,000 people when a clash with the state militia began. The protests in 1999 lasted a week. The dissidents were jailed and some were ...
Ahmadinejad, Neda, and the Politics of Misdirection
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyMahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered a public investigation into the death of Neda Soltan -- but don't expect a turnaround from claims that the state militia had nothing to do with it. "Interference by enemies of Iran" was among the culprits that Ahmadinejad cited, as well as "propaganda by the foreign media," and -- according to Iran's ambassador to Mexico -- maybe the CIA. The timing of Ahmadinejad's sudden interest in Soltan's death is no coincidence, nor is it likely the result of the incumbent stumbling upon the video while browsing YouTube -- it comes just as officials finish their recount ...
The Changing Face of Martyrdom
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyWe don't know much about Neda Agha Soltan. We know she was 26 years old. Some reports say she was a philosophy student. We do know that on June 20, 2009, she was watching a protest in Tehran when she was shot to death. ...
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