Posted on 12/25/2009 7:15:51 PM PST by Steelfish
December 26, 2009 Iranian Student Protester Neda Soltan Is Times Person of the Year
Neda Soltan did not vote in her country's election, but was appalled by the rigging of the result. Since she was shot in a democracy protest, her face has become an opposition symbol
Neda Soltan was not political. She did not vote in the Iranian presidential election on June 12. The young student was appalled, however, by the way that the regime shamelessly rigged the result and reinstalled Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ignoring the pleas of her family, she went with her music teacher eight days later to join a huge opposition demonstration in Tehran.
“Even if a bullet goes through my heart it’s not important,” she told Caspian Makan, her fiancé. “What we’re fighting for is more important. When it comes to taking our stolen rights back we should not hesitate. Everyone is responsible. Each person leaves a footprint in this world.”
Ms Soltan, 26, had no idea just how big a footprint she would leave. Hours after leaving home, she was indeed shot, by a government militiaman, as she and other demonstrators chanted: “Death to the dictator.”
Arash Hejazi, a doctor standing near by, remembers her looking down in surprise as blood gushed from her chest. She collapsed. More blood spewed from her mouth. As she lay dying on the pavement, her life ebbing out of her, “I felt she was trying to ask a question. Why?” said Dr Hejazi, who tried to save her life.
Why had an election that generated so much excitement ended with a government that claims to champion the highest moral values, the finest Islamic principles, butchering its own youth?
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
That has to be photoshopped, but it’s a great pic regardless.
Where did you find it?
The London Times got it right. May her life inspire those who yearn for freedom, in Iran, HERE, and everywhere in the world.
Someone posted it within one of the FReeper threads back when the first unrests/protests in Iran began earlier this year after the Ahmadinejad’s re-election...just before the death of Neda.
I opted to keep the picture as a memento.
Btw, I just Googled the picture and ran across this:
http://profilesblog.com/2009/06/ahmadinejad-middle-finger/
Excellent selection! May she never be forgotten. May Iran’s fight for freedom not be ignored. The West has the chance to facilitate a regime change that has the potential to entirely transform the Middle East. And they’re blowing right past it.
Bump.
no Barry peace prize winner ????? i’m disappointed/sarc
We should arm the Iranian resistance.
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Both great slideshows potlatch
NedaThis woman presented more character than Rat Boy and his entire IRGC, plus Barry and the Boys in his Senate Band.
Barry the Closet Islamo-Commie expressed more hissy fit over his precious Professor Graves feather-ruffling than over Rat Boy's biyatch shooting Neda in cold blood.
We don't have a president.
We have an accessory to a crime against humanity.
Yes, photoshopped if you know the culture as the middle finger or “bird” sign in Iran is what we use a the “good” sign here. The “thumbs” up is the Persian equivalent of the middle finger here!! It is called “bilakh” or “up yours”.
Yes, photoshopped if you know the culture as the middle finger or “bird” sign in Iran is what we use a the “good” sign here. The “thumbs” up is the Persian equivalent of the middle finger here!! It is called “bilakh” or “up yours”.
Thank you, Time magazine.
” We don’t have a president.
We have an accessory to a crime against humanity.”
That says it all.
I'm sort of shocked.
Imagine, a dying print media tool of the left making a better and larger political statement than our usurper Marxist muzzie loving Kenyan poser
Who would have thought this could happen!
London Times, as you most likely know by now... :)
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