Airforce Amazons (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Aired in the US under the title A Death in Tehran , as part of the PBS Frontline series, the BBC film on Neda Agha Soltan was broadcast on BBC 2 yesterday and is available online for the next few days, until Tuesday Dec 1st. I recommend it. (Via Azarmehr .) Naj of Neo-Resistance places Neda’s death in a longer history of struggle. She writes: Iran’s female icon...
ArchaeoTexture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Let's see ... Sarah Palin and her book? naaah ... Michaele Salahi and her celebrity aspirations? uh-uh ... I'll go with Neda Agha-Soltan. Who, you might ask? ... Exactly! It's been less than a month since Queen’s College, in Oxford, England, announced that it had established the “Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship” for philosophy students...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... al-Arabiyya TV. Iran Street in Yemen's capital Sana'a, meanwhile, has been renamed after Neda Agha Soltan, the young protester who was shot dead in June at the start of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's post-election crackdown in Iran – and whose dying moments were broadcast across the world. The spat reflects Yemeni fury over claims that Iran is backing the Zaydi "Houthi"...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The Obama administration has been unable to figure out whether and how to help the Iranian opposition. The opposition came out against the nuclear deal with the P 5+1 powers and the administration may have had no idea why. On the day that he won the Nobel peace prize, Obama mentioned Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman whose murder has become a symbol of the revolution, but he...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
CLICK TO LISTEN An Iranian 'Martyr'WATCH:NEXT ON:Today, 21:00 on BBC Two (except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue))SYNOPSISOn June 20th, a young Iranian woman was shot in the street in Tehran. The video of her death, filmed on a mobile phone, was seen by millions around the world.This World tells the story of Neda Agha Soltan, with exclusive accounts from those who...
