Ahmadinejad: Neda's death is 'suspicious'

[Turborama]

Source: CNN International

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called the death of Neda Agha-Soltan "suspicious" and urged the country's authorities to identify those responsible for it, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday.

The 26-year-old's death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government's official election results since it was captured on amateur video. Within hours of its being posted online June 20, she had become the iconic victim of the Iranian government crackdown.

But Iran has been pushing back against eyewitness reports that she was shot by pro-government Basij militiamen perched on a rooftop near a demonstration.

Ahmadinejad told the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, to probe the incident and make the results of his investigations public, Fars reported Monday, nine days after Agha-Soltan was killed. "The massive propaganda of the foreign media, as well as other evidence, proves the interference of the enemies of the Iranian nation who want to take political advantage and darken the pure face of the Islamic republic," he said in a letter to Shahroudi, according to the news agency.

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1st Iran's ambassador to Mexico, then Press TV and now the holocaust denier himself has weighed in.

As mentioned in the other thread, Iran's ambassador to Mexico http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3942750&mesg_id=3943817 ">has been saying she was shot in the head. Anyone who has seen the video knows this is a patently false account of what happened. They are crapping themselves and desperately trying everything possible to stop her martyrdom getting out of control.

[aquart]

1. Iran's George Bush continues. Poor Iran.

[saigon68]

2. I GUESS GETTING SHOT IN THE FACE-- ISN'T DEFINITIVE

Suspicious my ass.

[Vidar]

7. They could blame it on Cheney.

[saigon68]

11. Except the COWARD is back in his Hidey hole

I can't argue that he can't practice firearms safety tho.

[Soylent Brice]

3. let the totalitarian crackdown begin...

sad state of affairs.

[patrice]

4. They're going to grab some poor Resister and make him/her say it was setup to

foment insurrection. That is if they aren't already doing so.

[SkyDaddy7]

5. Somebody on Twitter said...

Ahmadinejad will probably blame Neda's death on "James Bond" considering how outlandish his comments have been in the past.

[AlbertCat]

6. Ahmadinejad: Neda's death is 'suspicious'

But not as "suspicious" as your victory.

[reorg]

8. well, the eyewitnesses can't seem to agree on a single version either

>>eyewitness reports that she was shot by pro-government Basij militiamen perched on a rooftop near a demonstration<<

The doctor in the widely distributed video capturing the scene, Arash Hejazi, said in a BBC interview that the shooter, who was not on a rooftop but on a motorbike, was actually captured, disarmed and identified by demonstrators ...":

Arash Hejazi Interview for BBC (Paulo Coelho Blog) 5:57 - 8:03

So, finding out what actually happened may well be the reasonable thing to do.

[chrisa]

9. Watch, as their lapdog police investigators conclude...

That the CIA actually shot Neda from the rooftop to fuel anti-Iranian sentiment and try to overthrow the Iranian government.

It wouldn't surprise me at all, since they already seem to be implying it.

[MarjorieG]

10. CIA's been rogue in the past, but all the factions seem to be moving again to be against the US.

At an impasse, maybe don't know what else to do but revert to habit.

[ohio2007]

12. The investigation leads to blaming "The Red Coats" . He wants an apology and punitive damages so he

can pay his thugs off and


maybe have a buck or two left over for a trip to Dinsey World







and a side trip to Independence Hall