Who was the victim in Irans shot heard round the world?”
Death came quickly for 27-year old Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan, shot by a gunman as she innocently marched in a demonstration against the mullah regime in Tehran on June 20th. Iranian government officials, allegedly, have investigated the crime. While the chilling video of her last moments reveals a cowardly act committed by her killer, one of the benefits of a theocracy is that solving such a crime is much easier to do when evidence need not be found–only created. Clearly, police investigators were given artistic license in this case to create evidence pointing away from Tehran’s brutal regime. The government-run Islamic Republic News Network reported the bullet that killed Neda was “unique”–code for “foreign involvement.” It also said the fact people just happened to be filming the spot where Neda was walking before being shot suggests they must have known an “event” was about to happen. Since the government has repeatedly claimed demonstrations taking place in Iran are not th
