Posts Tagged ‘Neda Agah Soltan’

HBO’s Neda Agha-Soltan Documentary

In Crime, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, fame, fashion on 16 June 2010 tagged #Iranelection, Ali Ansari, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Azar Nafisi, Green Revolution, HBO, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tehran with View Comments

“The God I worship is a compassionate and loving God” – Neda Agha Soltan “The whole idea with this [Iranian] regime is that because they confiscated religion and turned it into an ideology, they deprived it of everything that makes religion humane…so this government in fact destroyed the religion by claiming it and confiscating it” [...]

Video : Unveiling of a Statue of Neda Agah Soltan

In Art, Crime, History, Iran, News, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, fame on 9 October 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Basij, Basiji, Iran, Iranian election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, protest, Statue, Tehran, Video, Youtube with View Comments

Video – A statue of Neda unveiled [Twitter]

Video: Katie Couric Interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, Internet, Iran, Iraq, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, TV, citizenship, fame on 1 October 2009 tagged #Iranelection, #UNGA, allah hu akbar, Associated Press, BBC, CBS, CBS Evening News, Concentration Camp, Democracy, Europe, Gaza, genocide, Germany, Green Revolution, Holocaust, Human Rights, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iranian election, Israel, Katie Couric, law, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marwa Ali El Sherbini, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mourning, Mousavi, NATO, Neda Agah Soltan, Neo-nazi, New York, NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY, nuclear energy, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, protest, Sea of Green, Texas, The Sea of Green, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Security Council, United States, UNSC, Video, Voice of America, World War 2, Youtube, Zionism with View Comments

Before he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric: “The world needs a new system. Today‘s conditions cannot go on the way they are, in other words, the status quo cannot keep. The economic conditions around the world, cultural problems, as well [...]

Iranian Protesters : ‘Tehran Was Our Town Today’

In Crime, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, citizenship on 31 July 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Basij, Basiji, Beheshte Zahra, cemetery, Green Revolution, Iran, Iranian election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, protest, Revolutionary Guard, Sea of Green, Tehran, Time with View Comments

Power to the people: At 4 p.m. the Iranian government broke up an attempted memorial service at a cemetery, but very soon after, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of central Tehran the night of July 30, overwhelming Iran‘s feared security forces. The crowds burned tires, honked horns, waved peace signs and [...]

Video : Iranians Take to Streets and Cars to Mourn Dead

In History, Internet, Iran, News, Politics, citizenship on 30 July 2009 tagged #Iranelection, allah hu akbar, Democracy, Green Revolution, Iran, Iranian election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mourning, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, protest, Sea of Green, The Sea of Green, Video, Youtube with View Comments

With the banning of foreign journalists and Iranian journalists being told to keep away, this kind of grainy, handheld, eye-witness footage is the best footage we can get of the people taking to the streets of Iran in memory of Neda Agah Soltan and the countless others who have been either detained or killed by [...]