The World Mourns Neda

The Basij targeted her because she was wearing a loose scarf, and was pretty, shows the misogny of Iran’s current regime.

Neda Agha Soltan, You’re grave will be marked someday.Do you think the State Department might want to honor her family with an inviteto America for the Fourth of July, or is that reserved for her murderer’s?

Neda died for Iranian freedom and she did not die in vain. America does not have a monopoly on patriots. In Iran the despotic leaders have had their claim to that honorific forever torn away by Neda’s ultimate demonstration.

Obama disgrace, from WaPo…it is HEROS LIKE NEDA, NOT BLOWHARDS LIKE OBAMA, THAT DESERVE CREDIT FOR THE IRANIAN DEMOCRATIC UPRISING AGAINST THE MULLAHS. OBAMA IS A DISGRACE FOR CLAIMING CREDIT LIKE A SPOILED SCHOOLBOY FOR EVERYTHING.
Obama’s approach to Iran, including his assertion that the unrest there represents a debate among Iranians unrelated to the United States, is an acknowledgment that a U.S. president’s words have a limited ability to alter foreign events in real time and could do more harm than good. But privately Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters, especially the young ones, who are now posing the most direct challenge to the republic’s Islamic authority in its 30-year history.
hotair:
This is the most despicable, self-serving, and arrogant spin I’ve seen yet from this White House, and that’s saying something. Obama gave a speech, and suddenly the people of Iran discovered that they’re being ruled by tyrants? Never mind that two weeks passed between the speech and the uprising, and that the very obvious trigger for the unrest was the incompetent manner in which the mullahs rigged the election for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Never mind the fact that this President took a full week to even sound like a watered-down Nicolas Sarkozy, let alone the leader of the free world.

it’s pathetic how the Obama haters have jumped on the assassination of Neda for the sole purpose of making cheap political point. you care nothing about Neda and that is cynical beyond cynicism. if Neda were a Palestinian asassinated bt Israeli troops you haters would be defending Israel. to the haters this is all about how can the murder of a young lady be used to tear down a president they don’t like. these haters and their puppet-masters (Limbaugh, O’Reilly) care nothing for freedom or democracy. their only concern is that Obama goes down. talk about cynicism.

it’s pathetic how the Obama haters have jumped on the assassination of Neda for the sole purpose of making cheap political point. you care nothing about Neda and that is cynical beyond cynicism. if Neda were a Palestinian asassinated bt Israeli troops you haters would be defending Israel. to the haters this is all about how can the murder of a young lady be used to tear down a president they don’t like. these haters and their puppet-masters (Limbaugh, O’Reilly) care nothing for freedom or democracy. their only concern is that Obama goes down. talk about cynicism.
Posted by: Paul Wall | Jun 23, 2009 11:23:47 AM
if NEDA WAS A PALESTINIAN, OBAMA WOULD HAVE ALREADY ISSUED A STATEMENT CALLING HER KILLING A TRAGEDY.
INSTEAD, HE SLOW PLAYED IT, HOPING THE FERVOR WOULD GO AWAY, AND NOW, TELEPROMPTER ONE WILL WAX ELOQUENT ABOUT IT TODAY IN A EXTRAORDINARILY CYNICAL ATTEMPT TO GAIN CREDIT FOR HER BLOOD.
JUST LIKE THE TRIAL BALLOON IN TODAY’S WAPO, IN WHICH OBAMA “ADVISERS” “PRIVATELY” CLAIM THAT THE “OBAMA EFFECT” CAUSED THE IRANIAN UPRISING.

The supreme leader is the real dictator, the revolution can only be successful with his head on a pole

Even under the reign of the USSR the media was less controlled and far more objective. In the West and especially in the US the mass media outlets are used not as mean to provide information but rather for misinformation. The events in Tehran are classical example of that – the reality on the ground has nothing in common with the reality depicted by the “free” media!

from so called -the truth -”if NEDA WAS A PALESTINIAN, OBAMA WOULD HAVE ALREADY ISSUED A STATEMENT CALLING HER KILLING A TRAGEDY.”
Your screaming rants are so political phony and insincere. You don’t scream in support of our hero soldiers dying daily, or for innocent victims in Iraq Afghanistan or for our journalist imprisoned in N Korea or victims of home grown terrorists.
it’s all Anti-Obama all the time, and the truth is not in you.
God be with all the suffering families with losses in freedoms cause.
peace

This post has nothing to do with Obama – it is about noticing and honoring the simple and profound sacrifice of Neda Agha-Soltan. There are plenty of other threads to attack or justify your political party of choice, can’t there be bipartisan agreement that Neda deserves to be honored for HER actions?

Why did Obama spend father’s day with his kids….
He could have been enjoying Nude Hiking Day on the Appalachian Trail with Governor Sanders.

So now 0bama is going to have a press conference, conveniently timed at 12:30 EDT when lots of USA moms are having their lunch and catching a break with their favorite soap opera. Coincidence? No way. This is deliberate, so that 0 can put on a show of commiseration using Neda’s death as a prop, at a time when his target audience will be watching TV. Gotta shore up the soccer mom base!
Just when you think ‘Chicago’ cannot become any more craven and self-absorbed; well, there he goes again.

This is just so sick.
This poor woman.
And the RIGHT wants to use her corpse as a bludgeon to attack our own President.

It’s totally bizarre that the president would have a press conference during the day…. a conspiracy!
As if a president would have a press conference at 4 am or something?
He eats Ice Cream!
He uses a teleprompter!
He has a press conference! On TV! People are watching it!
What strange things to hate. It’s one thing to be upset about policies. It’s another thing altogether to have pure, unbridled hatred directed at the man. Whenever you take an armed subgroup of the population and convince them that a single person is the devil incarnate, you are just setting yourself up for disaster.

america is now creating muslim martyrs? we should build a monument. what do we consider those whom died at kent state in ohio? they should have a monument while we are creating symbols of political oppression on an innocent peoples.

“And the RIGHT wants to use her corpse as a bludgeon to attack our own President.”
Terri Schiavo all over again.
The right wing is disgusting.

“So now 0bama is going to have a press conference, conveniently timed at 12:30 EDT when lots of USA moms are having their lunch and catching a break with their favorite soap opera. Coincidence? No way.”
Because if there’s any demographic Obama needs to shore up, its East Coast women.
Let’s see so far this week, the various right wing nutjobs have offered that the WH garden was faked, that Obamas ice cream trip was the part of an elaborate ruse and now the Machiavellian scheduling of a press conference.

I don’t feel that Obama was very nice to you when you asked him a question. He doesn’t need to tell us that he is the President of the United States. He acts like he has to keep reminding himself.
He is not sure who he is. He can;t answer a question without some off the wall answer that don’t even comply with what was asked. What a loser.

“I don’t feel that Obama was very nice to you when you asked him a question. He doesn’t need to tell us that he is the President of the United States. He acts like he has to keep reminding himself.”
Actually Jake got a little puffed up by trying to ask 3 questions plus pointing to another reporter to push his questiion & got a gentle smack down by the pres. I’m sure he will be here to brag about it and fish for his daily blog back pats.
Surely not fodder for the haters.

Borneo, “On the other hand, there are many people who hope that Neda’s death might translate into victory in the United States’ mid-term election.”
I believe more Americans hope for a turning point in Iran, brought about by the Iranian people themselves, but see only a positive in the world offering them words of encouragement.
The only reason for this to have an effect in mid-term elections is if the majority of Americans feel this and other situations are not being handled properly by our present government. Sadly, in this situation, there is no way to separate the personal tragedy from the political possibilities.
A reporter asked Obama, with regards to his freshly crafted remark that he has been appalled and outraged at what has transpired in Iran, “What took you so long?” That is how many of us feel.
It’s a little unnerving. Americans are rarely the ones asked, “Where were you? What took you so long?”
Many of us wanted a change in leadership but not a change in America.

I wasn’t thinking, “What took you so long?”
I am only interested in seeing the Iranians succeed… and given that I have no access to State Department’s actions in Iran… and that the US relationship with Iran has been a very touchy one… I don’t really feel like I could get a reasonable answer to this question.
On the other hand, the haste with which people who already hate Obama and want him to fail have seized upon the crisis in Iran… not as something worth supporting in any practical way… but as an instrument to make our President appear weak… makes me doubt the earnestness.
When the GOP’s policy on Iran has pretty much been in favor of war, with all the collateral damage that implies, I have a hard time swallowing this sudden outpouring of empathy.
On the whole, the question of how sternly Obama should speak against the Iranian government is a distraction. It ignores the fact that there may be real diplomatic (even covert) actions underway. And it distracts from the fact that this Iranian Revolution is entirely a homegrown phenomenon that belongs to the people of Iran, and that it would also be a tragedy if the President provoked a backlash against the demonstrators by undermining their legitimate right to representation.

yes!
a thought for Neda!
she did not die in vain!
now, it’s up to us the remaining living human beings to prove our worth!
Neda, rest in peace!

I didn’t knew her but now i and everyone out here feel more connected to her as she like us, was a free human being. It is heart breaking that she is no more alive. People now call her the face of ongoing protest in Iran, but nobody knows what all she wanted in her life. what was her aspirations. One of them might be to see her country Iran prosper and return to peace. She was to get married in a month or two. She was killed without any provocation, so an innocent life lost. When will we start caring for LIFE. With one’s death it’s not only one person dies but people associated with them die a silent death everyday.

On Wed., June 24, 2pm, ABC News radio 770 in NY stated as fact that Neda was NOT shot by Iranian security forces,
and that the murder was STAGED.
How does ABC news know this? Does ABC have enough integrity to retract their previous statement?
Why is ABC so willing to throw away their journalistic integrity? Do they think no one will notice?

dying eyes
(a song for Neda Agha-Soltan)
her eyes roll back and far to the side
she’s gone, gone now, nothing left to hide
unjust, insane, unholy, fair unfair
it’s neither here nor there
she was taken away by an age-old war
hope we can now see what she died for
the blood now flows from mouth and nose
somebody pressing the wound screams
but she’s gone, gone now, that we should see
she’s gone, gone for eternity
all now red, white, black it seems
but it’s not just Neda here we can now see
(chorus)
i saw, i saw a woman die
i saw, i saw her dying eyes
i saw, i saw Neda die
i saw, i saw her dying eyes
a symbol, a message, a meaning she may be
once a woman, a daughter, a sister there to see
but now gone and never never a mother to be
and though once a danger there to somebody
and maybe somehow even now or yet to be
that’s not just Neda there we can now see
(chorus)
she was often covered there, hidden, had to be
under a thumb, that chador she sometimes wore
but while dying, on her we could clearly see
sneakers, jeans, modernity
Neda now plain to see
Neda now plain to see
peace, peace be upon you, Neda
peace
peace, peace be upon you, Neda
peace