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Posted on 06/22/2009 1:03:52 PM PDT by lewisglad
Fiancé of slain Iranian protestor: Neda wanted freedom
Two days after video depicting death of Iranian protestor in Tehran who has become symbol of reformist struggle, young woman's fiancé speaks to press, saying she was not politically affiliated. Iranian exile who uploaded footage to Web: I knew world would be shocked
Dudi Cohen Published: 06.22.09, 20:57 / Israel News
"Neda wanted freedom, freedom for everyone," said Kaspeen Makan, who was engaged to Neda Sultani, 27, the Iranian woman who has become a symbol of the reformist struggle in Iran after a video of her being killed by a Basij sniper during a protest on Saturday was posted on the Internet.
"She said a number of times that even if she dies and takes a bullet to the heart, which apparently is what happened, it will be a step forward. Neda, in her young age, taught a lesson to many people," said Makan in an interview with the BBC.
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He noted that she was not affiliated with any political camp. "Neda's goal was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, but her homeland. It was important to her that the homeland advance a step forward."
Neda Sultani was shot by a Besij snipers, who were apparently riding on motorcycles, on Amir Abad Street in Tehran on Saturday. The video that has been circulating on the Internet, making the young woman into a symbol of the Iranian reformist opposition, shows her last moments before being shot in the company of her father.
Makan said of Saturday's events, "When it happened, she was far away from the confrontations." According to him, she was there with her music teacher. After the event, he said, "They tried to evacuate her to a hospital, but she died in the arms of her teacher before getting there." He added that Neda was buried on Sunday evening in the cemetery in Tehran.
Makan complained that the Iranian authorities blocked the family from holding a memorial ceremony in a mosque, as is customary, the day after the burial. "They knew that everyone in Iran and abroad was sorrowed by her death and that many people would show up. They didn't want uproar to be created because of it," he said.
Neda in her final moments (excerpt from YouTube video)
In reference to the falsified photographs depicting Neda wearing a green headband that were distributed on the Internet, apparently by Mousavi supporters, Makan said that she was not politically affiliated with either side of the current struggle. According to him, "Neda wanted freedom, freedom for everyone."
The man who published the video on the Internet also spoke with the foreign media. "I felt that I had to post video because I tried to show the world what is happening in my country," said Hamed, the Iranian exile who posted the widely watched footage.
Picture of Neda with blood on her face alongside old pictures of her (Photo: AFP)
"My blood pressure dropped. I cried," said Hamed of the moment he saw the footage for the first time. In a telephone interview with British newspaper The Guardian, Hamed added, "The video clip really shocked me, and I was certain that anyone in the world seeing it would be shocked by it, be they male or female."
'A young woman was just killed next to me'
Hamed recounted in a sea of emotions that as he was writing with an Iranian friend on the social networking site Facebook, his friend told him, "My wife came home and someone was killed next to her on Amir-Abed Street, and my wife's clothes were stained with blood."
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Upon reading this, Hamed erased the conversation with his friend and went on a mission calling a number of friends in Tehran until he could understand what was going on the area. A friend of his, the person responsible for filming the video, wrote to him that "a young woman was just killed next to me," and asked if Hamed could post the video footage he just shot.
The video was sent to Hamed via email, and shortly made its way to YouTube. Just moments after posting the video to YouTube, Hamed started receiving thousands of emails regarding the footage. He sent the video to the BBC and CNN, and from there, the video quickly became a symbol of the reformist struggle in Iran.
Still no comment on the slaying of Neda from 0bama.
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She wasn’t wearing a green headscarf, she was wearing a black one.
I understand the need for the Mousavi camp to make it about him, but it didn’t seem to be.
The whole thing is just sad.
Perceptions often are much more important than fact.
She is the symbol of the rebellion.
He noted that she was not affiliated with any political camp. "Neda's goal was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, but her homeland. It was important to her that the homeland advance a step forward."
Bttt!
My admiration for Neda just increased millionfold.
Iran needs millions of Neda's who see through both Musavi and nutjob and would sacrafice their lives for their homeland's freedom.
See my post above.
The symbolism of her death just increased even more, since she died for Iran, and not just for Musavi’s side.
This is heartbreaking
Her fiancee said they would not allow a funeral service for Neda. Banned and illegal. They even kept some of her bones to prevent her from going to heaven.
BOY OHHH BOY...
Let her be the POSTERGIRL for the Revolution.
We need to see MORE & MORE & MORE of NEDA.
I want to hear from her fiancee TOO!!!
Let’s make it happen!!!
Are there any film clips of her before the protests happened??
Islam is a religion for cretins. Neda was too good for it.
This is the first report I’ve seen that finally identifies Neda as an innocent pedestrian ... no where NEAR any demonstration.
She went to heaven the second she died. Idiots!
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The answer is to STORM MULLAHVILLE!!
Use stick, stones irons, pitchforks etc and UNDRESS the MULLAHS!!
STUPID IDIOTS, the soul is what goes NOT the F...King BONES.
In the prisons of Khomeini they raped female prisoners before killing them, because virgins would go to heaven.
I don’t need to say more about these ghouls.
Good luck with that. She left hell, that is for sure.
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.
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10 posted on Saturday, June 20, 2009 3:42:09 PM by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
This is from the first story posted here in post # 10 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275946/posts. I'm not sure if any news source has said much about this. Most of the news seems to be comming from Twitter.
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