Three years ago today Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed, likely by a member of the Basij (an Iranian paramilitary force), during a peaceful protest in the streets of Tehran following the controversial Iranian Presidential election of 2009.
Multiple videos which captured her death were uploaded across the Internet and subsequently viewed by millions of people, sparking outrage not only within Iran but around the world. She quickly became a symbol of the Iranian protest movement.
Before Neda’s murder, the street protests against Iran’s stolen election had been a revolution without a face, doomed to be crushed by brute authority and eventually forgotten. But Neda’s dying gaze drew the eyes of the world. We can neither look away nor forget.
We will not forget her.
(January 23, 1983 - June 20, 2009)
An Iranian soldier saving a wounded in Liberation of Khorramshahr. The Persian writings on the wall says: “Until the last drop of our blood, we will fight for the motherland.”
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V for Victory. Tehran, Iran December 27, 2009
“A backer of Mir Hossein Mousavi helps evacuate an injured riot-police officer during riots in Tehran.”
June 13, 2009
An Iranian soldier wearing a gas mask in a trench during the Iran-Iraq War.
This day in history:
Iraqi troops begin the invasion of Iran, starting the Iran–Iraq War.
Between the two countries, more than one million people would die. The combined economic loss was more than 1.2 trillion dollars.
The war ended in 1988 after eight years in stalemate - after all the fighting, neither side had gained anything.
September 22, 1980 - 31 years ago today.
