It was not enough that Ahmadinejad and the mullahs murdered their own people.
It was not enough that they hired basij to kill their citizens.
It was not enough that one of them took aim at a young woman standing with her music teacher in a doorway and shot her dead.
No, they then stole the body and would not give it to the family.
They prevented, indeed banned, the family from mourning her death as is done in their culture.
They canceled the funeral.
They buried Neda Soltan "somewhere" and banned all mourning ceremonies in the mosques.
Then they evicted the family from their home!
–A tearful middle-aged woman who was an immediate neighbor said her family had not slept for days because of the oppressive presence of the Basij militia, out in force in the area harassing people since Soltan’s death.
The area in front of Soltan’s house was empty today. There was no sign of black cloths, banners or mourning. Secret police patrolled the street.
"We are trembling," one neighbor said. "We are still afraid. We haven’t had a peaceful time in the last days, let alone her family. Nobody was allowed to console her family, they were alone, they were under arrest and their daughter was just killed. I can’t imagine how painful it was for them. Her friends came to console her family but the police didn’t let them in and forced them to disperse and arrested some of them. Neda’s family were not even given a quiet moment to grieve."
But this is not enough. No, now they are accusing the protesters of killing Neda Soltan to make her into a martyr. This is in direct opposition to an eye witness account of her murder.
And this one is over the top — the Javan, a government newspaper, is now blaming an expelled BBC correspondent, Jon Leyne, of hiring "thugs" to shoot her so he could make a documentary film.
The Iranian theocracy, the religious and asinine and cruel government is at the root of the oppression. Being control freaks, they cannot see that Neda Soltan would have been the perfect emissary for Iran. She was a delightful young woman with so much promise. Freedom for Iran means getting rid of the Islamic yoke of intolerance.
"In Iran, when someone dies, neighbors visit the family and will not let them stay alone for weeks but Neda’s family was forced to be alone, otherwise the whole of Iran would gather here," he said. "The government is terrible, they are even accusing pro-Mousavi people of killing Neda and have just written in their websites that Neda is a Basiji (government militia) martyr. That’s ridiculous – if that’s true why don’t they let her family hold any funeral or ceremonies? Since the election, you are not able to trust one word from the government." A shopkeeper said he had often met Soltan, who used to come to his store.
"She was a kind, innocent girl. She treated me well and I appreciated her behavior. I was surprised when I found out that she was killed by the riot police. I knew she was a student as she mentioned that she was going to university. She always had a nice peaceful smile and now she has been sacrificed for the government’s vote-rigging in the presidential election."
– The Guardian
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