Watch the following video closely. It shows Neda Agha-Soltan holding an unknown object in her hand as she lies on the ground apparently moments from death. She then moves her hand across her face and seconds later her face is covered in blood.
What of Dr. Arash Hejazi, who said he had been present during the incident but has since fled Iran out of fear of government reprisals?
At 19:05 June 20th Place: Kargar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father [sic, later identified as her music teacher] watching the protests was shot by a Basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than two minutes. The protests were going on about one kilometre away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gas used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.
His friend shoots the video, the doctor supplies the testimony to the western media and then he is gone.
Is this another case of Western propaganda designed to prime the viewing audience? How often does the media show people actually dying on our screens? Usually they are careful to protect our delicate western sensibilities. They might show us hazy Gameboy images of “terrorists” being “taken out” by missiles fired from heroes in helicopters. But nothing up close and personal in the way this woman’s death was presented.
Is this another baby incubator farce or a Jessica Lynch re-run? Another hysteria fuelled fake out? A prelude to massed tanks on the border?
Does anybody dispute the fact the Iranian government is a vile and oppressive instrument? I doubt it. Does anyone doubt the Iranian authorities reacted fiercely during the period of unrest? Can anyone not have sympathy for the victim? I think not. But given the amount of stories our media continues to fabricate can we take it for granted the events surrounding this woman’s death occurred as reported by our unworthy agencies such as the BBC and CNN? Why trust proven liars and propagandists? Much better to investigate their motives.
Could anything like this ever happen in the eternally virtuous west? Well, yes it could and yes it has and there doesn’t even need to be civil unrest on the streets. Any time a thug gets a gun there’s going to be a victim. But you need to make allowances for such acts of authoritarian thuggery, it’s all done to protect you. Remember?
Except when it happens in Iran. It’s okay to call it like it is or even embellish when “they” are doing it. But “us”, we never meant it, it was a mistake, here’s some money, go away, no public inquiry required. Close up video of “our mistakes?” Kidding me, right?
“It has been established that there has been a technical problem with the CCTV equipment on the relevant platform and no footage exists… Although there was on-board CCTV in the train, due to previous incidents, the hard drive had been removed and not replaced.
Never forget. Iran bad. West good. Iran bad, West good, Iran baaaaa-d, West good. Two legs baaa-baa-bad, Four legs good. Or is it the other way around? Or all the same and is anything true any more?
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