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La Figa ? Tehran Protests: Her Name Was Neda (Warning: Graphic Video)
The global community has been galvanized by the tweets, Facebook logins, cellphone pictures and reports from Iran. Now comes this video of a young a woman shot in Tehran by Basiji police force, which I came across after seeing “neda” and “#neda” on Twitter, where the words kept showing up in in the Tehran and Iran threads. “Neda” means “call” or “proclamation” in Farsi, an odd and chilling coincidence. I clicked a couple links, and then a few more and found the details:
At 19:05 June 20th
Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st.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.
The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.
Please let the world know.The video is extremely graphic, It also keeps getting pulled from YouTube, so you may have to search for NEDA to find it if this version gets yanked. Twitter hash “#neda” has become a new update site for the demonstrations in Tehran, with updates urging protester to not wear contact lenses, to wear green, and for everyone reading to change their Twitter and blog timezone to GMT + 3:30 (which is Tehran time) to baffle security forces searching for those reporting on the protests.
War on the streets of Tehran | FP Passport
the clear implication of Mousavi’s actions is that he no longer sees the supreme leader as the legitimate, unquestioned ruler of Iran. I’m sure an increasing number of Iranians feel the same way, even if the regime ultimately beats them into submission as we watch helplessly, glued to our monitors. And that will spell the end of the Islamic Republic in the long run.
I watched Zbig on Fareed Zakaria GPS today and he made a great comparison, one in which the Neocons would be wise to consider before trying to ratchet up tensions with their typical empty rhetoric. He compared this to the Eastern European revolutions in 89 and how Bush I (who is seeming more and more underrated in Foreign Policy as the days go on) and how the US didn’t get involved for fear of giving the Soviet/Communist neocon-equivalents the political capital they would need to crack down on western-agitated uprisings. Their revolutions happened organically and were ultimately more effective. Obama is trying to do the same here.
Khameini has already tried to brand this as being foreign influenced and has already expelled or imprisoned a bunch of western AND Iranian journalists. But the class-levelling people power of the internet wins again. Some people are already calling this the Twitter Revolution.
Good sources for info:
#IranElection tracker for the easily overwhelmed (robinsloan.com)
Iran Unrest – twazzup twitter search
Global Voices Online
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