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...government also began a propaganda campaign aimed at shifting responsibility for the violence meted out by the state onto foreign powers and the protesters themselves. State television aired a program in which witnesses and experts all agreed that Neda Agha-Soltan - the 27-year-old bystander whose death was captured on YouTube, sparking sympathy worldwide and turning Neda into a martyr - was shot by foreign agents in order to intensify people's rage. State television also broadcast another program mourning the purported deaths of eight Basijis killed by bullet wounds...
...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims to have defeated: the unwanted quest and the risking of life in pursuit of an unanticipated destiny. Could he be Boromir, the imperfect warrior who is heroic at the end, dying to defend humanity? Didn't Mousavi talk about being ready for martyrdom? (See pictures of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose death has rallied the opposition...
...economy, the moral vagaries of his family - on the British. This has been a constant theme in Iranian public life for at least 100 years, although the U.S. has supplanted Britain as the Great Satan, the source of all Iranian miseries, since the revolution of 1979. (See pictures of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose death has rallied the opposition...
...streets, but also an effort to score political points against a popular President and, long term, an attempt to prevent any negotiations with Iran from taking place. McCain won and lost during the course of the battle: the terrible events in the streets - especially the public death of young Neda Agha-Soltan, recorded on a cell-phone video - made it necessary, and appropriate, for the President to move in McCain's direction and use tougher language condemning the Iranian security forces, even if Obama continued to refuse to question the legitimacy of the Iranian government...
...event, Obama was asked to respond to the images of a young woman named Neda dying in a Tehran street after being shot in the chest. "Heartbreaking," he said. Thomas, who has asked questions of every President since John F. Kennedy, then interrupted him, asking him why he would not release disturbing images of U.S. military abuse of detainees. "Hold on a second, Helen. That's a different question," the President responded, though he never took the time to answer...