I hope the Iranian government is pleased with themselves:
The fiance of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose violent death during clashes in Tehran on Saturday was recorded on video and uploaded to the internet, has described the events leading up to her shooting in an interview for BBC Persian TV.
She had been sitting with her music teacher in a car, stuck in traffic, when she decided to get out because of the heat.
“She got out of the car for just for a few minutes [and] that’s when she was shot dead,” said Caspian Makan.
Mr Makan quoted eyewitnesses as saying she appeared to have been targeted deliberately by “paramilitaries in civilian clothing”.
He added that officials had prevented mourners holding a memorial service at a mosque on Monday.“The authorities are aware that everybody in Iran and throughout the whole world knows about her story,” he told the BBC. “They were afraid that lots of people could turn up.”
Adding insult to injury…
