Check out this piece from Ynet news:
(…) she was not affiliated with any political camp. “Neda’s goal was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, but her homeland. It was important to her that the homeland advance a step forward.”
Neda Sultani was shot by a Besij snipers, who were apparently riding on motorcycles, on Amir Abad Street in Tehran on Saturday. The video that has been circulating on the Internet, making the young woman into a symbol of the Iranian reformist opposition, shows her last moments before being shot in the company of her father (…)
Wait!
I though that she had been shot by a Basij sniper “hiding on a rooftop”…
Or was the “Basij thug” riding his motorcycle while hiding on a rooftop?
And since when do snipers operate from motorcycles anyway?!
Well, I guess we will probaly never find out who exactly shot Neda, other than that we can be quite certain that he/she was a “Basij thug”…
And then the articles also says this:
In reference to the falsified photographs depicting Neda wearing a green headband that were distributed on the Internet, apparently by Mousavi supporters, Makan said that she was not politically affiliated with either side of the current struggle.
What “falsified photographs”? Does Ynet mean to say that somebody in the “reform camp” actually falsifies photographs? Maybe Ynet is a covert “supporter of the regime”?
Seriously, it is becoming clear that Neda was an innocent bystander who probably caught a lost bullet and that she had nothing to do with any political riots. I can’t wait to get more details about whom the Tehran cops actually arrested.
More to come soon, I am sure.
In the meantime check these two recent articles about the “stolen elections” canard (here and here).
About the claim made about the fact that in some zones there were more votes than voters, Iranian law allows anyone that has the right to vote to do it in any zone of the country, no matter the city or region they come from or live in, they just need to show the electoral certificate. So it can actually be absolutely normal that in some zones the number of votes is major that the number of voters.
So the (sacrosanct) questions to ask about the alleged irregularities in the votes should be completely different (for example, in which zones the votes were recounted? Is there a difference between the number of votes in the first count and and the second, and if there is, which is it?).
I’m glad to have found your site. Not only are you questioning everything you hear, you aren’t letting your emotions get the better of you.
I truly thought everyone would be able to see through this zionist operation but by God, everyone’s bought into the propaganda. Keep us posted and you’ve got one more regular reader!
Another good article about “Iran, Social Media and the Rise of Genetically Modified Grassroots Organizations”: http://www.counterpunch.org/bratich06222009.html
Teheran is irritated by the role played by the EU
Teheran, 21 June – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad demanded Western powers, especially the US and Great Britain, to stop interfering with Iran’s internal affairs. For his part Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani, addressing the Parliament, sharply condemned as outrageous comments coming from the French, British and German establishment about the recently held presidential elections in Iran and called for relations with these countries to be reconsidered. He invited the parliamentary Commissions for Foreign policy and Security matters to discuss Iran’s ties with the three European countries.
Both Ahmadi Nejad’s and Larijani’s declarations followed Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s forceful attack against British foreign policy in the Middle East, especially against its interference with Iran’s internal affairs. He accused Great Britain of masterminding subversive terror assaults in Iran through special forces it is training on Iraqi territory. He went on accusing all three – France, Great Britain and Germany – of plotting a “coloured revolution” to achieve regime change in Iran, saying: “The West is trying to impose its conditions and its own democratic criterion on other states … The peoples that have gained their independence with great sacrifices cannot accept western players in their countries … The Iranian people cannot easily give up its revolutionary achievements and religious sovereignty”.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband promptly replied that he rejected the idea that protesters in Iran were manipulated or motivated by foreign countries. Nonetheless, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned European Union diplomats to convey them a protest note, handed over to the Czech envoy Jan Kohout, whose country currently holds EU presidency. No specifics were released about the talks with the EU diplomats, but from earlier remarks it seems clear that Iran is irritated by the role which European authorities have permitted groups of the Iranian People’s Mujaheddin to play in organizing protest rallies in European capitals.
From: http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=27485&lang=en
As gloating over Iran’s internal turmoil tunes down, exercises in the Gulf take off as scheduled
Teheran, 22 June – Talking to Al Jazeera International from his Washington DC residence, former deputy prime minister of Iran, Mohsen Sazegara, now one of the leaders of the Iranian dissident communities in exile, deplored what he defined the lack of courage on the part of the US administration to step up support for the diaspora organizations of Iranian dissidents in their attempt to overthrow the government in Iran. Sazegara’s acknowledgement of Iranian dissident organizations abroad acting within the frame of a Western policy aimed at pushing for regime change in Iran fits into statements from some European countries, foremost Italy and Sweden, that they might be willing to open their embassies in Teheran to protesters seeking protection against the police.
In the meantime however, as some influential Western countries, urged by a host of Western political parties and organiztions, are mulling more provocative steps against the Iranian government, Iran’s Western-allied Arab neighbours and NATO-member Turkey are warning against any further outside interference in Iranian internal affairs. Media outlets in several Arab countries allied with the US and in Turkey are warning against the serious repercussions a policy of destabilizing towards Teheran would inevitably have on their own stability.
Last not least, the leaders of the so-called reformist movement in Iran are not appearing to be willing to let things get out of hand by permitting the reformist movement to be steered from the outside. Mir Hossein Mousavi , in a statement posted on his website yesterday, said he would stand by the protesters, but he would “never allow anybody’s life to be endangered because of my actions”. He also defined the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, charged with restoring order on the streets, as “our brothers … and protectors of our revolution and regime”, urging the some one thousand protesters on the streets to refrain from violence and to show self-restraint. In addition, a close collaborator of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Qorban Behzadian Nejad, denied Mousavi had ever said he was ready for martyrdom in his political struggle, as had been stated by various Western media outlets.
Also today, right on schedule the Iranian air force began military exercises in the Gulf and the Sea of Oman, showing that an internal policy problem, to whatever extent it might affect the power balance inside the establishment of the Islamic Republic in the short term, does not tune down Iran’s ambition to consolidate its position as a major regional power. Iran has the strongest navy in the Gulf, deploying ships to international waters such as the Gulf of Aden near Yemen and has carried out numerous long-range missile tests.
From: http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=27502&lang=en
Some news agencies cite Fars saying that five foreing (two French, two German and a British) were arrested during Saturday’s disorders.
Moreover, some European countries received invitation to open their Embassies to people that have been blessed or injured or that need to hide from Iranian authorities, and the writer of the article thinks that this request is likely to come from people of the MKO (here a source in Italian: http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=27492&lang=it ).
Does anyone know more about these two things?
Alex, the first one was published by presstv. On the second you’ll find more details on almanar.
The USA is mad at getting Iran on the table to speak about… security in Afghanistán…
For the second time, Iran has not showed up.
http://www.presstv.ir/new/detail.aspx?id=98815§ionid=351020101
It seems the mysterious “doctor” at the scene has changed his story for the third time. First, he claimed it was a Basij militiaman hidden on a rooftop who shot Neda. Faced with the obvious contradiction of being able to identify a shooter who was supposedly hidden, the story then became a Basij on a motorcycle. Since this still doesn’t ID the shooter, we now have a crowd of people stopping the Basij, getting him to admit his guilt, and confiscating his ID as well as taking pictures of him.
Clickable link
http://www.connpost.com/ci_12689032?source=email
The propaganda is getting more than a little absurd here.
We may never know who really shot Neda, but if you look at the first few frames of one of the videos, it is clear that one of the cellphone cameramen started filming before Neda even finished slumping to the ground. That is some helluva camera-fu there.
Imagine being able to be minding your business, randomly filming events at a demonstration, when a shot rings out, and you immediately react to the shot, look around to see who if anyone was hit, and immediately and without hesitation aim your cameraphone right at the victim, press the record button and wait for the one or more second delay before it starts recording, and start filming the victim’s horrifying death, all before she finishes slumping to the ground. Amazing.
Or is the more likely explanation that the guy was already in position and ready to start filming from the instant he heard the shot, in which case, the entire event was a setup to capture a young woman’s murder on video and make her a martyr?
Looking at the facts and the way the story keeps getting fine-tuned to make it more convincing, my vote is that this murder was the act of a group of agents provocateurs, and the only question now should be “who were they working for?”