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Iranian Student Protester Neda Soltan Is Times Person of the Year
London Times ^ | December 25th 2009

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009review; iran; iranianrevolution2; londontimes; manoftheyear; neda; nedasoltan; personoftheyear
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1 posted on 12/25/2009 7:15:52 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

You mean no Barry 0 or Bernanke? Shocking that someone who deserves the award receives it!

RIP Iranian patriot.


2 posted on 12/25/2009 7:18:18 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Never bring a snowball to a gun fight.)
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To: Steelfish

May the LORD do so to me and more also if My passion for My Country is not equal to the passion that She displayed for Liberty to be bestowed upon her nation.


3 posted on 12/25/2009 7:19:57 PM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: Steelfish
Enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran


4 posted on 12/25/2009 7:21:56 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Steelfish

Bless her soul.


5 posted on 12/25/2009 7:23:24 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

RIP

6 posted on 12/25/2009 7:23:24 PM PST by MaxMax (Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: Steelfish

For once I agree with Time. May she RIP


7 posted on 12/25/2009 7:26:16 PM PST by bronxville
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To: MaxMax

Thank you!


8 posted on 12/25/2009 7:26:20 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Never bring a snowball to a gun fight.)
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To: SolidWood; FARS; nuconvert; LibreOuMort; freedom44; SusanTK

ping


9 posted on 12/25/2009 7:26:27 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: MaxMax

bump


10 posted on 12/25/2009 7:26:41 PM PST by GeronL (This is a tagline)
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To: Steelfish

bttt


11 posted on 12/25/2009 7:27:12 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Steelfish

Kudos to Time for actually getting it right!


12 posted on 12/25/2009 7:32:39 PM PST by IMissPresidentReagan (ATTENTION RINOS: IT'S NOT THAT I'M TOO FAR RIGHT; IT'S THAT YOU'RE TOO FAR WRONG! fubo funp)
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To: bronxville

I don’t think this is TIME magazine pic. I believe it’s the pick of the London Times.


13 posted on 12/25/2009 7:33:39 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Good. A paper with guts.


14 posted on 12/25/2009 7:34:49 PM PST by rfp1234 (R.I.P. Scotty 7/2007-11/2009.)
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To: Steelfish
One has to wonder how this got through the Times leftist editorial board.

Whoever pushed it through is to be commended. She gave her life for a cause still unfulfilled. Many more in Iran stand to join her in the cause of Democracy.

And Obama wants to negotiate with the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad .

The world is upside down.

15 posted on 12/25/2009 7:40:48 PM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: HardStarboard

London Times.


16 posted on 12/25/2009 7:46:25 PM PST by omega4179 (Marco2010)
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17 posted on 12/25/2009 7:48:44 PM PST by cranked
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To: Steelfish

Freedom!


18 posted on 12/25/2009 7:54:52 PM PST by Ladycalif (Justice for Agent Rosas - Secure the Border.)
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To: HardStarboard

This is neither the NYTimes nor TIME magazine award- it’s from the London Times!


19 posted on 12/25/2009 8:03:32 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: cranked

Badass pic.


20 posted on 12/25/2009 8:05:54 PM PST by Hexenhammer ( The Spirit of '76!)
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