A Quiet Remembrance of Neda

Neda Agha-Soltan was a vibrant 27 year old graduate of Azad University who had recently become engaged to be married.

Friends have said she was not political, but she was young and proud of her country and its traditions.  When the outcome of the election was announced as a victory for Ahmadinejad, many young Iranians poured forth to express their fierce sense of injustice about the result.

Neda was only one of thousands.  She was barely a bystander who had just arrived near the scene of a large gathering.  She died almost immediately after getting out of her car–gunshot to the chest.

Neda will always represent the JUNE 20 REVOLUTION in Iran.

Though it may have lasted little more than a day, it yielded up a sacrifice for the world–the image and the Death of Neda Agha-Soltan.

Before there was a death–etched in blood, sweat, and tears–there were twenty-seven years of a very nice life and much promise for the future.

This is a memorial to the LIFE of Neda Agha-Soltan ::Rest in Peace::

A non-graphic still frame of Neda who has just been fatally wounded; she is attended by her music teacher and a bystander as she bleeds out onto the beloved land of her Iran.

a young Iranian American music student peforms “Colors of the Wind”

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