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Some Thoughts From a SM Reader … Iran: What if the people were armed?? Shouldn’t All People have Simple Freedoms?
Scared Monkeys —
... , beatings, and death. The latest news is that the army is throwing chemically tainted water on the protesters! ...
Neda, The Face of a Revolution [Iran]
Gawker —
... is destined to become the image that few of us who saw/see it will ever forget. What happens next in the movement is the question. Will Neda's death galvanize the Iranian revolutionaries who've spent the past week protesting against the religious conservatives who control their government and rigged the recent presidential election in their favor, or will Neda's death scare enough of them into submission to allow the government to effectively squash the movement? Time speculates on this very subject: Although it is not yet clear who shot ...
Will Neda Agha-Soltan's Death Tip Iran Into "Revolution"? [Call To Alarms]
Jezebel —
... , her death has taken the protests in Iran to a new level some are even making comparisons to the start of Iran's 1979 revolution . " ...
Peter Daou: Neda's Martyrdom and the Pitfalls of Obama's Chronic Pragmatism
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
... One of the most heart-stopping aspects of the Iran protests is the apparent caught-on-tape slaughter of a young woman named Neda Agha-Soltan. Writing for TIME, Robin Wright provides context and adds a note of caution about the circumstances: ...
I Am Neda: Could This Be The Birth Of A New Iranian Revolution?
The Frisky —
... Another video making the rounds on the web shows her face, blood streaming out of her nose and mouth and her gaze completely blank. Although I’ve been hearing about the violent protests in Tehran, I never once imagined violence of this nature. I’m not sure what I was picturing, but it wasn’t the bloody massacre of a twenty-something student who was just expressing her political voice. And it appears that people around the world are finding this video just as disturbing as I am. Time reports that Neda has been dubbed a martyr, a concept extremely important in Islam. And since ...
