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Here is what happened in 2009 that shook the world as young Neda Agha-Soltan was gunned down as she opened her car door. She was the face of the Iranian revolution than and a new lady has come to take her place this time.This time we don’t have a sympathetic muslim terrorist in office we have a true patriot: President Donald Trump.He has already come out on the side of the Iranian freedom fighters and we know we can count on this President.
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Here is a clip from the shooting in 2009:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/22/neda-soltani-death-iran

The killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, the grisly images of blood spreading across her face, have become perhaps the defining sequence in the 10-day uprising against the regime in Tehran, a gruesome manifestation of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s threat to use force on the tens of thousands of people contesting the outcome of the presidential election.
Agha-Soltan is being mythologised as a martyr to the opposition’s cause, a rallying call for a protest movement in need of a hero. Her image has been printed on placards brandished during clashes in Tehrantoday.

The footage is disturbing. Her eyes open, Agha-Soltan seems to radiate a calmness at odds with the panic surrounding her as she lies in the road after being struck by a bullet.

For the authorities, it was clearly unsettling. They quickly moved to ban the victim’s family from holding an Islamic funeral, apparently for fear of creating a figure that could unite and revive the battered opposition.

The details surrounding Agha-Soltan’s death are as sketchy as her own story. She was 26, a philosophy student and a part-time travel agent, according to those who knew her. She was no rock thrower at the vanguard of a movement for regime change, but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan, a young woman who may have ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Makan said she had been in a car in central Tehran with her music teacher when they were caught in a traffic jam. He said the pair had left the car to escape the heat.

It was when she was walking down Karegar Street talking on her phone that the shot rang out.

“Neda’s aim was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, her target was her country,” Makan said, adding that although she hadn’t planned on demonstrating, she was sympathetic to the protest movement.

In the footage she is wearing jeans, white trainers, a dark shirt and a headscarf, suggesting a middle class and relatively emancipated young woman.

Several men are shown frantically trying to save her life as blood from her wounds rapidly develops into a large pool beside her.

Reports vary on who fired the fatal shot. Some sources suggested it was a Basij volunteer on a motorcycle, while others have attributed it to a marksman on the roof of a nearby house.

Others said she may have been targeted because she was using a mobile phone, one of the opposition’s most important tools.

Another video said to be of Agha-Soltan, taken just before she was shot, shows her standing among a crowd of protesters, some of whom are heard chanting “death to the dictator” and “Allahu Akbar”.