If you haven’t heard by now, there some deaths over the weekend in Iran during some of the protest over the elections results.  The Iranian state run media confirmed 17 deaths at last count.  It is not the number of people that has the world in an uproar but the death of one woman being called Neda (though that may not be her name – Neda means "the voice" in Farsi) who was a watching the protest and whom did not seem to be actually involved in the activities.  The video of her death (warning video is very graphic to the point that YouTube requires age verification) has been circulating social and web sites.  According to reports, the woman was shot by a Basij sniper stationed on a rooftop of a house in front of her father.  The validity of the video and report has not been confirmed and some are skeptic of the video’s footage.  Other videos are surfacing of attacks by government-supported forces feeding to the fire to the outrage of Iran’s handling of the protests.

If the reports and video of “Neda’s” death are true, I feel sorrow for her father and her family and hope that someday the persons responsible will have to answer for the senseless crime.

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