The name that has been going through everyone?s mind these days is Neda Agha Sultan (the name of this person is given in various other ways as well such as, Neda Sultan, Neda Soltani, Neda Agha Soltan Neda Agha Sultan; the reason for such many names is that different languages of different dialects of Farsi and English and the reason that the same alphabet?s are not used).
Neda Agha Sultan, a young woman was taking part in a demonstration against the Iran?s elections fraud last week and was shot during the protest. An evidential video was made of her death taken on the spot. And instantly was spread around the world through YouTube and Facebook and many other various social networks which also showed how technology has out done itself today that information that might have been hidden by the government is out in the open where everyone can witness the truth first hand and unedited.
The video can be seen below and please be advice that the video is very disturbing and not advised to be watched by the ones weak at heart as it shows Neda Agha Sultan literally die and is not a reconstruction of the video.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
When will people realize that we are all equal and should be treated that way. Do not judge me for the colour of my skin, my beliefs, my opinion, and especially because I am a women. We are all equal in GOD’s eyes.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
it doesnt matter your background your religion your race Nedas death is in one way or another affecting us all. I am a white, christain, 32 year-old girl from milwaukee wisconsin, and I truly feel an enormous amount of grief from watching the assination of this georgous girl. I recently married a Pakastani born Muslim whom I LOVE MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF. We are raising our children as Muslim Americans. Comig from an all white all christain background, many of my family members were all but pleased with my choices,now after everything I have learned, I am so proud to be married to him and I AM PROUD OF MYSELF for searchinfg deeper and looking inside this man because I FOUND THE TRUEST LOVE ILL EVER KNOW . Were all people fighting to be heard in one wat or another GOD BLESS YOU NEDA. SALAM TO YOU AND YOURS
June 25th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Neda I too found you a beautiful woman, intellegant, with a whole life ahead of you till this dispicable act of violence. It is true that most of us in America don’t understand why there is so much hatred of each other in the middle east. Our country was formed from people of all races and religions and with freedom you learn to live together for the most part in peace. I truely hope that this lose of a wonderful sole will make people sit up and realize that this is a smaller world then we think and that we must learn to live together in peace or we are all doomed. We all believe in some form of God in one way or another. No one is wrong and on one is right. We need to stop, smell the flowers sit next to our fellow neighbor have a meal together and get to know who that neighbor really is. I think we will find that we are not that different after all. Who amount us is brave enough to try!
June 25th, 2009 at 3:57 am
That is truly disturbing to watch. Her eyes wide open, her face expressionless, the sudden flow of blood from her mouth and nose. This is death, and what the Iranian government have done is grotesque. If we can remember such powerful and harrowing images when we are told from afar the number of people killed in such scenarios in history, perhaps we can grasp the significance of a statistic otherwise abstract, dehumanised. If we can remember that helpless gaze, that blood-marked pavement, her stillness, maybe we will see that murderers concealed behind a veil of politics, propaganda and delusion are still murderers, and should be treated like murderers, and should be punished as murderers.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:37 am
This is sad and it should not have happened.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:21 am
She was on a quiet street trying to go home but unable to do so because of the protests near by, yet she was targeted by a sniper. Does this not symbolize the Iranian President as a coward trying to intimidate and silence his people? They tried to discourage a public funeral, but guess what, the WORLD is mourning this atrocity!! People of Iran, FIGHT for Justice, Freedom and true Democracy, don’t let Neda and others die in vain!! If not now, then when, it will only get worse. I will pray for all of you and hope Iran will some day represent a country of Justice and Peace.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:24 am
That an innocent life has been taken by their own people and possibly their own government – Who are the thugs that ordered the gunmen into the streets? Her death was / is senseless and not necessary. May the great spirit please help us to see what we have done, what we are doing. We… humans.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:42 am
As I sit here in Kansas and think about the election protests in Iran, Freedom is truly not free and I will never forget Neda Agha Sultan!! She has paid the ultimate price and she will be the biggest reason for the people of Iran taking back their country! The sad thing is there will be more blood shed before its all over!! Peace with Neda and the liberation of Iran!!! I am so disturbed by this but its the hard cold truth about corrupt governments!!! I will never forget this!!
July 5th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
It is when I hear of atrocities such as this that I feel ashamed to be part of the human race. The perpetrators of this crime are nothing but pure evil. Sorry Neda that you lost your life so senselessly – a beautiful and precious life…gone
July 6th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I was so moved by this tragedy and what it seemed to symbolize that I wrote a song dedicated to Neda:
Youtube: “One Lost Vote”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYiMxBaUXtk
Best Wishes to Iranians all over the world
August 7th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
It’s criminal that a young woman was shot like that, but why it makes the news when so many other things like it happen makes me wonder what the people who decide what airs or not hope to get out of it. Do they hope that incidents like that would cause such outrage as to allow people in the US of a mind to do so to mobilize agitative elements hoping to up the rhetoric with Iran? I don’t see that as being in the US’ best interests.