Monday, June 22, 2009

The Iranian Uprising - June 22, 2009

The Iranian Uprising
Protesters hail Neda Soltan as a Martyr and her senseless death is sure to bring deeper unrest in Iran in the days to come…
Monday, June 22, 2009.
Iran Opposition Leader Stands by Protesters
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About this News Video: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has vowed he will stand by the protesters whose week of defiance has deeply shaken the country. Video Date: June 22nd.
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Young girl being killed by plainclothes
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About this video: Basij shot to death a young woman in Tehran's Saturday, June 20th Protests.At 19:05, June 20th…Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi St..A young woman who was standing aside with her father 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 2 minutes… The protests were going on about 1 kilometer 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… Please let the world know…
INFO/Video posted on LiveLeak by deathtokhamenei
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* FoxNews.com brings us the following report and it starts off like this… Protesters in Iran are hailing 26-year-old Neda Soltan as a martyr after graphic videos of her apparent murder at a protest in Tehran hit the Internet. Iran experts say images of her bloody death have galvanized the country and that mourning for her - which has been banned by authorities - will bring deeper unrest… "Neda," whose identity could not be verified by FOXNews.com, was reportedly gunned down by paramilitary police Saturday during protests in the capital city. Videos posted on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter show her bleeding from the nose and mouth as a crowd tries unsuccessfully to stanch the flow and save her life… The video also shows a moving clip of a man identified by some as her father or professor cradling her head and yelling out, "Neda, don't be afraid. Neda, stay with me. Neda stay with me!”…
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Read the full report at link below…
.* AP reports it this way… Amateur video of a young Iranian woman lying in the street - blood streaming from her nose and mouth - has quickly become an iconic image of the country's opposition movement and unleashed a flood of outrage at the regime's crackdown… The footage, less than a minute long, appears to capture the woman's death moments after she was shot at a protest — a powerful example of citizens' ability to document events inside Iran despite government restrictions on foreign media and Internet and phone lines…
Read this article in full at link below…
.* TheSun.Co.uk has this report…
Shot girl's last moments
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Above link has news video and short slideshow
.* The Washington Post has this report posted up on their website this Monday afternoon and it starts off like this… Demonstrators returned to a public square in Iran's capital Monday to protest alleged fraud in the recent presidential election and were met with beatings and tear gas from security forces, eyewitnesses said. Meanwhile, the group charged with certifying the election said discrepancies between the number of votes and eligible voters in some districts did not constitute proof of ballot-tampering…

Read the full report at link below…
Above link also has a long, informative slideshow
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Sen. John McCain on Iran
About this video: Sen. McCain reads an AP article on protest crackdown but mainly focuses on the death of the woman known as "Neda," who was killed and her video posted on YouTube. He then reads another article detailing the death.
This video posted on YouTube by
CSPAN
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I’ll end today’s post with this News Video from Studio B on the Fox News Channel…
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Read more from FOX at link below…
New Amateur Videos Reportedly Show Police, Protesters Clash in Iran
Great reporting FOX!
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AubreyJ………

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