The current crisis in Iran is unbelievable. Certainly this struggle is teaching world governments that the 21st century has provided the people with the means to keep their government's accountable. It is amazing seeing just how much footage is coming out of Iran. Information on Neda Agha-Sultani can be found all over the internet. Links to video, images and text concerning Neda are listed below.
1. HuffingtonPost.com
2. Wikepedia
3. Telegraph
4. iPouya
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What's is most deplorable however regarding the circumstances of her murder are the actions of the Iranian government to ensure her body was placed in a pauper's grave without ceremony or final respects. Such action, such policy is inhumane. Deliberately disrepecting funeral and burial traditions is amongst the lowest form of human cruelty. New websites and blogs report that this woman is the first martyr of the 2009 pro-democracy revolution in Iran. Denying the right to mourn to this woman's family, denying the right to assemble for prayer vigils, and denying the right to hold memorials in mosques for her and others that have been killed are three heavy nails that the current Iranian leadership has just hammered into its own coffin.
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