A young Iranian woman with a promising future is murdered in cold blood by a government thug. Neda Agha-Soltan was on her way to protest against the illegal Iranian regime who remain in power despite losing a recent election.
Neda Agha Soltan
She was deliberately targeted by a Basij — an Islamic volunteer militiaman and shot through the heart. I bet he’s proud of himself.
This is the account told to BBC Persian TV by her fiancé, Caspian Makan.
“She was near the area, a few streets away, from where the main protests were taking place, near the Amir-Abad area. She was with her music teacher, sitting in a car and stuck in traffic.
She was feeling very tired and very hot. She got out of the car for just for a few minutes. And that’s when it all happened.
That’s when she was shot dead. Eyewitnesses and video footage of the shooting clearly show that probably Basij paramilitaries in civilian clothing deliberately targeted her. Eyewitnesses said they clearly targeted her and she was shot in the chest.
She passed away within a few minutes. People tried to take her to the nearest hospital, the Shariati hospital. But it was too late.
We worked so hard to get the authorities to release her body. She was taken to a morgue outside Tehran. The officials from the morgue asked if they could use parts of her corpse for body transplants for medical patients.
They didn’t specify what exactly they intended to do. Her family agreed because they wanted to bury her as soon as possible.
We buried her in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran. They asked us to bury her in this section where it seemed the authorities had set aside spaces for graves for those killed during the violent clashes in Tehran last week.
On Monday afternoon, we had planned to hold a memorial service at the mosque.
But the authorities there and the paramilitary group, the Basij, wouldn’t allow it because they were worried it would attract unwanted attention and they didn’t want anymore trouble.
The authorities are aware that everybody in Iran and throughout the whole world knows about her story. So that’s why they didn’t want a memorial service. They were afraid that lots people could turn up at the event.
So as things stand now, we are not allowed to hold any gatherings to remember Neda.”
Neda isn’t the only death, there have been many, but partly because of the manner of her death and partly because the evidence was filmed and uploaded to YouTube she symbolizes the hope of the people. Her death will, I believe, accelerate the demise of this terrible regime.
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