Iran's "Angel of Freedom", Neda

Neda Agha Soltan
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200962484755543950.html


On July the 4th, many U.S. citizens will celebrate Independence Day. It is a day in which we honor and celebrate our freedom. We have the right to agree, disagree, argue, and even protest openly against our elected officials, leaders and their policies.

Iran's "Angel of Freedom", Neda Agha Soltan, has had those rights taken away from her. In Iran's supposedly democratic theocracy, the mirage of democratic freedom has finally been stripped away. Iran's leaders are now showing the World their true faces.

It took one bullet from a member of the Basij militia on a motorcycle to kill Neda Agha Soltan. Images of Neda as she was dying have been seen by all the World. The video is graphic and uncensored; it needs to be remembered as it is the raw truth. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/?bcpid=4464161001&bctid=27077553001)
She will be remembered as Iran's "Angel of Freedom". The truth of what happened can not be silenced, even though Iran's leaders have tried to block the Iranian citizens' access to the Internet and the rest of the World.

In a BBC interview, Dr. Arash Hejazi, the doctor seen in the vidoes trying to save Neda, tells what happened:

"...he was visiting friends in Tehran when he heard there were protests nearby, and
decided to take a look. When they reached the main street, they saw anti-riot
police coming on motorcycles towards the crowd.

"All of a sudden
everything turned crazy," he said. "The anti-riot police threw teargas among
people and the motorcycles started rushing towards people."

He
continued: "We heard a gunshot. And Neda was standing one metre away from me...
We were just standing and all of a sudden I turned back and I saw blood gushing
out of Neda's chest.

"She was in a shocked situation, just looking at
her chest, which blood was gushing out... We ran towards her and lay her on the
ground.

"I bent over her and I saw the bullet wound right in the chest
below the neck with blood gushing out. My experience says that it was the aorta
that was hit and the lung as well."

He added: "Her blood was draining
out of her body and I was just putting pressure on the wounds to try to stop the
bleeding, which wasn't successful unfortunately, and she died in less than one
minute."

The people around her took her body away in a car, Dr Hejazi
said.

The protesters thought the gunshot had come from a rooftop nearby,
but later saw a member of the Basij militia on a motorcycle. They stopped him
and disarmed him, the doctor said.

"He was shouting, 'I didn't want to
kill her'. I heard him," Hejazi said."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5644492/Doctor-blames-death-of-Irans-Angel-of-Freedom-Neda-Agha-Soltan-on-militia.html

Iran's leaders have tried to quickly get out propaganda to disparage Neda. They released report she was the sister of a terrorist; someone with a smuggled gun had opened fire in the street and killed her; she was faking her death, another protestor shot her..etc.

None of their lies can silence the impact of her martyrdom, her death for the cause of freedom.