AFP: Slain Neda is'one of my daughters', shah's son says »
Posted By dissent 6 months, 1 week ago in NewsWASHINGTON (AFP) — The son of the late shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, was Monday carrying in his breastpocket a photograph of the slain protester known as Neda said to have been killed in the Tehran protests.
"I have added her (Neda) to the list of my daughters. She is now forever in my pocket," Pahlavi told AFP fighting back tears, after calling at a press conference for Western media and governments to stand strongly alongside the protest movement in Iran.
The former crown prince of Iran took from his left breastpocket photographs of his wife, Yasmine, and three daughters, Noor, Iman and Farah, and, in the same clutch of images, one of a veiled Neda.
He held them up silently, and stammered an apology for having tears in his eyes.
A video of a blood-drenched young woman, purportedly killed in protests in Tehran, has been flashed around the world via the Internet since it was posted Saturday.
The woman, known only as Neda, has become a symbol of Iranian defiance of the country's Islamic rulers and their insistence that hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won this month's presidential election.
In a speech at the packed National Press Club in Washington, Pahlavi slammed the "brutal violence of the regime's plain-clothes thugs against unarmed people" and urged global media to continue to be "the international artery" of the Iranian protest movement.
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dissent6 months, 1 week ago
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AnteUp6 months, 1 week ago
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No fooling! Got SAVAK? They really care about Iranians! They care more about
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returning to the days of extravagance and excess that they were raised in.
You must weed through the analysts very cautiously. Some actually DO
care about the cause of the demonstrators and their possible fates -
others are like Iranian Chalabis. It is more important than ever to consider
the source. Google the names - try to get a feel for what they might actually
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hyperbola6 months, 1 week ago
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One more layer of the cake!
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Obama should resist the efforts of the propaganda campaign being mounted by israelis and israel-firsters/zioncons in the US to try to force him to fight another mideast war to "protect" zionist crimes against humanity.
Americans should be extremely sceptical of the "freedom and democracy" propaganda being put about by these groups. The Iran situation is extremely complex and most Americans do not understand the ramifications.
1. On one level (islamic clerics), this is about whether the "supreme leader" is responsible only to god and infallible, or whether he is responsible to the people of Iran. Not very different from the catholic argument about infallibility of the Pope.
2. On a second level, it is about the power of rich oligarchs (Mousavi, Rafsanjani) in Iranian society and whether the poor should keep quiet and do what the oligarchs decide is best. Remember that many Iranis voted for Ahmadinejad because he put aid to poor people ahead of corrupt oligarchs. Far from representing the "people of Iran", the Mousavi/Rafsnajani faction may be using middle class discontent to foment their own corruption cirles.
3. On a third level it is about the wishes of "middle class" Iranians for more personal freedoms. It is clear from the demonstrations that many people feel very fervently about this, especially in central Tehran. However, to a majority of poor Iranians, e.g. in the slums of south Tehran and the rest of the country, the "aid for the poor versus power for the oligarchs" may be a more decisive argument. That is why Ahmadinejad already decisively defeated the Rafsnajani/Mousavi group in the previous elections (and by the same margin).
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Progressive6 months, 1 week ago
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FTA:
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The woman, known only as Neda, has become a symbol of Iranian defiance of the country's Islamic rulers and their insistence that hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won this month's presidential election.
Her full name is NEDA AGHA-SOLTAN:
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ur-land-is-my-land6 months, 1 week ago
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In 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, women played a major role. Imam Khomeini's brilliant strategy in defeating Shah and his colonial masters , took a big risk and put all their eggs in one baskets, WOMEN. Imam Khomeini's strategy was very simple, so simple that almost all his advisers warned him against it.
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A) no ARMED uprising was the center of Imam Khomeini's strategy and not just during the revolution but during years leading to it.
B) Bringing out as many men and women into the streets as possible was his tactics
C) decoupling SHAH and ARMED FORCES was another major part of his brilliant strategy.
He relied on women to accomplish parts B and C. In those days Iranian men , at the beginning of the revolution were quite timid and petrified from participating in any rallies . If you could get women participate in rallies, in a way they would shame those men to come out and ..
Imam Khomeini also saw something that many missed it. All those men in Shah military that were protecting his regime and shooting at demonstrators had one or many of the following: mothers, sisters, daughters, wives....
so Imam Khomeini began speaking to these women, asked them to convince their husbands, brothers, sons and...to stop killing the demonstrators, to stop supporting Shah, to join people,..
well this strategy worked . WOmen joined the revolution, came out in numbers and shamed many men to come out too. In fact front lines of many marches during the revolution were women .
Women were able to decouple Shah and his military, soldeirs began to run away and Mullas were there to provide them plain cloths and a ticket to their home town or hide outs. Almost all top advisors of Imam Khomini including Rafsanjani, Mntazeri, Khamanie, were telling him maybe he should reconsider his strategy and make a compromise with Shah to avoid more casualty but his answer was :I know how to sink this ship"
After the triumph of revolution he said in more than one occasion that women played bigger role in this revolution than men did.
Since front line of rallies were mostly women, many of the first casualties of Shah's troops shooting were women too. Hundreds of women were slaughter by Shah's military. These women wanted nothing other than freedom and regaining their country back from jaws, paws and claws of Shah and his colonial masters. If Shah's son is interested, I am sure an entire BIG album of hundreds of Nedas who were killed by his father (and he , the son, never denounced it)can be sent to him He does not have to keep him in his pocket , it wont fit there, -
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ur-land-is-my-land6 months, 1 week ago
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I can only cry in silence for death of Neda and Nedas all over the world, be it in Iran or Palestine.
As it is no body knows who killed Neda. was it the troops? was it ACTIVATED SLEEPER CELLS of foreign intelligence services? was it the plain cloth police? No body knows but unfortunately she is being marketed already by "vultures". "Shahid dozdi" , stealing martyrs, used to happen during Islamic Revolution also. When my buddy Davood was shot dead at point blank by one of Shah’s officers, at his funeral, different groups ranging from Marxists to Muslim groups claimed he was a member of their organization. His funeral turned into a fist fight. The same is happening to Neda and I feel sorry for her family.
Shah’s son also used Neda’s death to once again kiss up to Israeli lobby in his interview and said that it is Hamas and Hizbollah members shooting at his people in Iranian streets…. Hmmmm… shame on him....-
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dissent6 months, 1 week ago
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As it is no body knows who killed Neda. was it the troops? was it ACTIVATED SLEEPER CELLS of foreign intelligence services? was it the plain cloth police? No body knows but unfortunately she is being marketed already by "vultures".
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i couldn't agree more and i'm glad you said it. her death and the deaths of others are being horrendously and shockingly exploited. as for who exactly killed her, does anybody really know?
it doesn't take much for evil mischief to fire bullets into a crowd, or to even pick a pretty poster girl to target and kill, in order to determinedly sway public and global opinion
her death and the deaths of others are clearly being exploited for propaganda purposes. the excessive remorse expressed and sentiment projected onto an innocent woman -- some have even gone so far as to called her "iran's joan of arc" -- is well beyond the pale. it is contrived histrionics.
if it is so easy to do this without shame then how much more difficult can it be to sacrifice her and those others and however many more in the days to come for those same purposes?
if this insensitive opportunistic insect, the shah's son, is prepared to crawl out from under the rug and cry crocodile tears at a press conference in dc and call neda "his daughter" then there are no limits to the degree of cynical callousness possible
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AnteUp6 months, 1 week ago
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Unless we are educated with the truth - we are doomed to
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watch as one evil begets yet another:
I found this yesterday at Iran Affairs.com:
The respected American journalist, William Worthy, visiting Iran, wrote in his journal on February 10, 1980: Two months ago, Kurt Waldheim was badly shaken when introduced in Tehran to five-year-old Abolfazi Safayi, who at the age of three, had been tortured by SAVAK in the presence of his father, to make the father reveal who had given him a taperecording of a Khomeini speech. Both the boy's arms were cut off. The father still wouldn't talk. Two of Abolfazi's brothers, one six months old, were then tortured to death in the father's presence. He still refused to talk.
On January 9, 1979, the New York Times reported: "Jesse J. Leaf . . . had been chief CIA analyst on Iran before resigning from the agency in 1973. . . . Mr. Leaf said a senior CIA official was involved in instructing officials in SAVAK on torture techniques. . . . The CIA torture seminars, Mr. Leaf said, 'were based on German torture techniques from World War II. . . . I know that the torture rooms were toured (by Americans) and it was all paid for by the USA'."
So, SAVAK was beyond evil and belonged to the Shah - Mossad and
the CIA trained them. Yet after the revolution of 1979 - SAVAK was reconstituted as SAVAMA - AND.......employed the SAME people
that the Shah had used to head SAVAK!
Richard Helms - of the CIA, and Hossein Fardoust - head of SAVAK
and the Shah were all school chums in Switzerland during the 30's. Isn't fact stranger than fiction? Also - how can you not
see the similarities to OUR recent policies? Remember when
John Yoo was asked during a Congressional hearing if crushing
a child's testicles in front of the parent to get info from
that parent, was a violation of Geneva and hence, TORTURE?
His reply was.........."it depends".
Heads up people - we cannot call "FIE!" on one alone - we
have got to look at the total picture to see the truly tangled
web that the "bad guys" and the "leaders of the free world"
have woven together.
I read stuff like this and I feel sincerely small and vulnerable
- that absolute evil is a tool for all, and has ben used regularly by friends and foes alike. Uber EVIL. -
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