[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvPHxmXYILA] This is the famous video of Neda, a 27 year old woman who was shot to death by the Iranian state two days ago while she was walking home from a protest about the elections that elected Ahmadinejad. She had gone to the protest with a male friend and the two of them were walking home along the street when a sniper on a building across the street shot her in the heart. She died quickly, blood pouring out of her nose and mouth from the chest wound while other protesters gathered around wailing. I think it makes sense for the state to offer to recount the ballots, as the election does seem to have been irregular. In Iran, ballots are counted by election workers, as in the US. These workers are retirees, professionals, teachers and government workers, once again as in the US. However, instead of having the poll workers count the ballots as is normally done, the ballot boxes were apparently confiscated after the election by Interior Ministry employees. The Interior Ministry employees were the ones who counted the ballots. This is very irregular for an Iranian election, and it is the first time this has ever happened since 1979. Since the revolution, the elections have all been quite fair, especially by regional standards. At this point, the state really needs to do a ballot recount. I do not think that another election is warranted. But at the very least the ballots could be counted again. This is one of the things that the protesters were protesting about. They feel that their ballots were not counted properly. It’s a legitimate beef. I really do not understand what the Ahmadinejad crowd is trying to pull off her or why this election was so irregular. I think that this is really going to backfire on these guys. Most of the other complaints about the election do not appear to hold water. There was no reason for this beautiful woman to be shot to death. She was walking home from a protest. Big deal. So she deserves to get murdered? Forget it. This video is now going viral on the Internet.
Neda of Iran: Video of a Martyr Killed By the State
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At first I thought that all this stuff about the Iranian elections was just agitprop from the mainstream center-right U.S. media, but now I’m pretty convinced Ahmadinejad didn’t win fair and square. Perhaps he could have if a real election had been allowed to take place, but we may never know.
Cenk Uygur’s article on it in the Huffington Post is pretty convincing to me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/iranian-elections-were-ob_b_215230.html
I pretty much agree with you. I think there is a lot of CIA BS going on here, but the election does look pretty irregular. The least they could do is a recount.
I am very confused about this election. According to Juan Cole, it’s clearly a case of Ahmadinejad stealing the election. But I am not so sure. They really do need to recount the votes.
At least they haven’t tried to color code this “revolution” to my knowledge.
Yeah, it’s a “green” revolution. Green for Islam. Except it’s not really a color revolution. It’s pro-Islam. So says the US media. Yeah right.
RL: “She had gone to the protest with a male friend and the two of them were walking home along the street when a sniper on a building across the street shot her in the heart.”
Is it known if she was shot by a government sniper? For all we know she could have been shot by people who were on her side. Since it was a sniper that did her in we’ll never really know.
Right, but I do not know if the opposition has guns.
How the hell can you tell it was a sniper shot?
A story you might be interested in Mr. Lindsay:
– “Evolution faster when it’s warmer” – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8115464.stm
Could explain why there is so much more genetic diversity amongst equatorial Africans as opposed to the White Europeans and Asians who live in colder northern climates.
Good stuff man, thx.
No prob…the following is another article I just came across that you might like —> http://www.globalpolitician.com/25700-multiculturalism-ethnic-minorities-human-rights – “How Multiculturalism Causes Conflict”
The author of that article, Dr. Sam Vaknin, is also a prolific writer on personality disorders, which as I recall you are also interested in; see: http://samvak.tripod.com/
The Neda woman is perfect for Zionist propaganda purposes.
Yah, very clever of her.
No. Zionists can use her death to make Ahmadinejad appear to be a dictator in order to serve their ends.
LOL @ Mort.