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Photos of the Decade: 2009 (Neda)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 21:58 
Neda Agha-Soltan after being shot by state militia in Tehran, 20 June 2009
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 21:58 
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 21:58
Neda Agha-Soltan after being shot by state militia in Tehran, 20 June 2009
Reader Comments (16)
This photo is purely for sensationalism of an event! It is to make the viewer think that Iran is less humane than the United States. There are people killed in the US weekly, who are innocent, but a police bullet gets them or sometimes in a hail of 50 bullets. There is never justice for these killings.
It is amazing that some always have the gall to point finger at others to justify a blatant wrong doing. It is truly shameful and an insult to those families in Iran who have lost their loved ones in the hands of a criminal regime in the past 31 years.
@Miranda
Why do you bring up the subject of injustices within the US? - when this discussion is about the injustice done to Neda in Iran??
Most of the posters here frequenting this Forum are not US citizens. Many are Iranian and others come from other countries. They are here primarily because of their interest (and disgust) at what is happening in Iran.
Bad things do happen in many countries - this does not in any way excuse or condone the manner in which the Iranian Regime is treating their own people in Iran. Germany once had a Nazi Regime, US had slaves, Saudi Arabia treats it's women no better than dogs, UK conquered lands, Eskimos kill whales, etc, etc. No excuse for Iran criminals.
Barry
Barry,
Thank you.
I live in the US and have lived for most of my life. I do not know a single case where a police officer at random has shot a person dead. They have shot people in the streets when their own lives or other citizens whom they have duty to protect have been threatened. In fact more people are shot dead every day by other citizens that by police officers.
Some people do not understand what they have unless they live in a place like Iran or other trouble spots and lawless lands in the world.
We see many people who are supporters of IR engage in diversion tactics by pointing to others. On EA, we know who they are and we know their names (not their real names) and their games. We had not heard from this person, post #1, before but I am sure we will hear from her/him again.
Hidarei, the Iranian consul in Norway, who resigned from his post in protest in an interview, said that 20% staff time and budget of every IR embassy in a foreign country was spent on recruiting and training people to carry out tasks in support of regime. He said these tasks ranged from demonstration in support of IR in a foreign country, putting out demonstration by opposition groups in foreign countries, intimidation of Iranians who lived abroad and did not support IR, cyber activities, etc. He said these trainees were non-Iranians and many did not know anything about Iran or did not care to know where Iran was even geographically located or about Iran political system. He said they only cared about coming to plush training centers, making some money, eat free food, rest and have a good time. He did not go so far to say they were being trained to carry out terrorist activities outside Iran. He did, however, say the very same people were hired to threaten him and his family when he decided to join the Green Movement. We can extrapolate besides diversion tactics what else they are trained to do.
Norway refuses him asylum ! Threatened by Iran !
http://news.kodoom.com/en/f/AAAGVA
Well, this is probably not true, it seems Iran spread this misinformation before
Pessimist,
This rumor circulated before. Heydari in an interview with VOA (Voice of America) denied the first rumor and explained asylum process was complete. He said the rumor was to discourage other embassy personnel around the world who were weighing their options. Indeed his comments on spending 20% of the embassy budget and staff on training issue were after he had been granted asylum. I do not think he would have shared that kind of information if he and his family were not protected.
Thanks Megan, good job I checked after finding that site, (should have done it before but it said '6 hours ago' so I thought it was new). Good grief, what they won't go to to twist the truth, they are really against the wall.
Funny about the first poster, just after I said yesterday that it'd be nice to have some new voices (:-)), whether it's a coincidence or not, in any case, the rant is not even original. Now we know why.. 20%... that must be quite a lot of converted euros.
And for this photo, just tonight on french tv, we had a program about Twitter and they interviewed the guy (french) who actually managed to find her name after the first video had been posted through Twitter, (in a few hours) It was spread around the world in minutes. He became an Iranian green supporter, and explained how she had become an Icone. (Tristen Mendes France). So to those who say Twitter was overestimated, BS.
available tomorrow no doubt
http://envoye-special.france2.fr/index-fr.php?page=reportage&id_rubrique=1394
I actually think this is a poor photo. It's no more than a shot of someone having been shot, so as a an image that tells us something it's simplistic and does little more than illicit shock at the gruesome image, but photography can achieve much more than shock and sensationalism.
Having said that I suppose one could argue it's come from a video (I guess!) so there is a lazy point that can be made about the instant nature of the image and the fact it isn't necessarily taken by a photographer and so on, but what does it contribute to our understanding of the event?
Dear Pessimist and Megan,
kodoom.com is the world's only independent search engine for Farsi news. The news about expelling Heydari was not a rumor. If you read Persian, you can see details in BBC, VOA, etc.:
http://politics.kodoom.com/c/AAvyvw
For English:
http://news.kodoom.com/en/s/AAvynA
From Reuters
@Kodoom Guy
Thank you for your comment, but I fail to understand because your links don't refer to the article. It refers (in english) to the tit for tat dismissal of other diplomats, so the source for the article I saw, is only your site.
And, now having done a translation of the other links that you give, in persian, it also refers to the other diplomats, so your comment has no sense at all.
Dear Kodoom Guy,
I can read Farsi and understand Farsi. The link you have provided, http://politics.kodoom.com/c/AAvyvw, very clearly states that in February of 2010 Norway government granted asylum to Mohammad Reza Heydari. It also says Reutter reported that on February 24, 2010 Islamic Republic formally protested the grant of Asylum to Heydari and demanded expel of one of Norway diplomat from Iran. The same report says Norway reciprocated and ordered expel of one Iranian diplomat from Norway. In no place this report says the diplomat to be expelled from Norway is or will be Heydari.
Norway is not a lawless land like Islamic Republic. Asylum once granted cannot be reversed unless there is compelling evidence that the applicant had been untruthful on his application. I do not think Mr. Heydari even needed to present a case why he and his family needed protection and were qualified for asylum.
Mr. Heydarei was interviewed, in Farsi, by VOA in February of this year. I listened to that interview. He said his asylum process had been completed and any rumor to the contrary was just that. Forgive me if I accept Mr. Heydari’s assertion more than a search engine that pulls out articles by keywords. In addition, Heydari must have been suicidal to have exposed unconventional if not illegal activities of IR embassy in Norway and other IR embassies in the world if he was expelled or was about to be expelled from Norway. He did not impress me as a suicidal person nor did he sound irrational like Ahmadinejad or khamenei, etc.
Dear Megan and Pessimist,
Thanks for pointing out to the accurate interpretation of the news. You are Correct and we removed the English news feature.
It was based on some blog activities in some Persian circles mis-interpreting the news about expelling "The Diplomat" from Norway which now seems to be someone other than Mr. Heydari. Thanks for correcting us again.
At Kodoom.com, as world's ONLY independent database of Farsi news and events, we strive to correctly and accurately list, archive, organizer, sort, and translate the most important news. Every day we process news and event from some 1200+ sites using robots and humans. Thanks for correcting the feature news which was designed to raise awareness about possible troubles for Mr. Heydari. We are glad to see he is safe.
Regards
Editor of Kodoom.com News Engine