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Murder
Weekly Standard Blog — The most dramatic video to emerge from Iran today can be seen below and comes with a strong content warning: Here's the story behind it: At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman ...

Iran erupts
Right Wing News — Iran has erupted into full-scale chaos. Former Iranian President Rafsanjani has been slaughtered and his family arrested. Thousands of protestors crowded the capital yesterday , where police met them with batons, water cannons, and... tear gas . Injured protestors are being arrested and detained when they go to hospitals for treatment, to the point where they have started fleeing to foreign embassies. Helicopters are allegedly pouring boiling water or some other burning agent onto protestors . Mousavi has released a statement saying he is prepared to be martyred . Over 20 bloggers and reporters ...

Neda identified?
Hot Air » Top Picks — Neda identified? posted at 7:18 pm on June 21, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Word on the street via one Iranian tweeter is that her name was Neda Agha Soltan. That’s also the name circulating on a few websites and now being attributed to her in a hastily arranged Wikipedia bio . The rumor — and it’s all rumor until some newspaper tracks down her family — is that she was 27 years old and a philosophy student. I hope to god this isn’t really her photo because the thought of her being so beautiful and dignified makes the murder somehow that much more obscene. ...

Neda: A Lesser Evil is Still Evil
Confederate Yankee — Neda: A Lesser Evil is Still Evil It seems like the talk of the blogosphere today is the death of an Iranian protestor, apparently gunned down with a shot to the heart by a Basij militiaman. It appears she is being prepared ...