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another side of neda???

not the chubby one with the bangs. that one they say was false, it's not her.

the other one.

//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5664347/Fiance-of-shot-Iran-protester-Neda-Agha-Soltan-begged-her-not-to-go-to-demos.html

Elham,

No, I don't know if Neda was a practicing Muslim but I do know this photo conveys the message that she was one to those who would find this desirable.

It is not a question of "trying to cash in". It is a question of 'public relations outreach.' The people behind the campaign very correctly wish to appeal to as many different groups as possible. By choosing a photo of Neda in chador I am sure they are hoping to covey (even if subconsciously, if you will) a positive message to very religious people including hardliners. This could help to sway them to their cause or at least get them not to be hostile to it.

It is not hypocrisy on the part of the people behind the campaign. It is the truth that Neda IS wearing black chador. It is also the truth that having chosen to be photographed like this there is a very distinct possibility that she had respect for Islam.

Why not green? The Greens and their supporters worldwide do not have to be convinced of anything. It is others who do.

Green is far too joyful for commemorating the dead.

Black it is the color of mourning. (And also the astute people behind this campaign probably realize that the green may be by now a bit 'overplayed' by now, especially since the political topography every day is changing so much. Subtly but so much)..

When you are planning aa publicity campaign you are talking to your audience TODAY . NOW It's not so important to dwell on history, even recent history.. You just target as wide an audience as possible NOW.

Black is so effective because for everyone it symbolizes mourning (and this is very effective for Westerners). But for the 'opposition' it has the wonderful advantage of also signifying Islam. Green would turn them off. But this appeals to them directly. The organizers of the campaign do this in the hope of 'winning hearts and  minds'. What baseeji's wife would not weep (again) upon seeing this photo of Neda after having tried to forget?

Black means sadness. Death. Green means joy. Life. This is about a funeral, about the dead.

A brilliant move with Neda's photo. A+ to the campaign organizers.

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No I am not cold. But you have to achieve some distance to be effective when you are planning or analyzing a PR campaign.

Rosie/ Roxy/ Roshan: Hold on

OK. With my broken English, I try to make my point cross, hopefully.

 1-Revolution 1979 was not an Islamic, it just had been taken hostage by a fundamental Muslin leaders in absence of any organization.

Same thing happening now. There is not any organization due to absolute dictatorship. People do not have much of choice. Are they Muslim? Absolutely but do they have a choice to choose? No, they do not.

2- I do not know if Neda was practicing muslin or not? Do you?  Either way, I do have great respect for her and she looks beautiful in all her pictures including this one but when I saw it , it was just strange to me that someone to pick a picture of her with a full Hejab ? From reading your note, I guess, I was right. Some people trying to cash in and make her own.

3- Again, out of curiosity; why a black list while the color of movement is clearly Green? I put Ahamdi Najad under a black list, not these young fallen heroes.

Down with islamic regime

and the barbaric terrorist dirty idiolojy muhammed=islam.-freeIran

Elham, It shows she was a devout Muslim..

that the movement is not inconsonant with the deepest values of Islams..

At the same time, she  happens to look more gorgeous than I have ever seen. Like a Vogue model. (As we say in fashion, 'less is more'...). You probably can't see how stunning and elegant she looks because as an Iranian of a certain type, you have an understandable and not uncommon 'allergy' to chador, but she does.

So the photo plays to all 'sides'... west, green, hardline..

And equally important (in some ways more), of course she is first, she is the most famous, and this is 'the BLACK list', and she is in all black.

Very shrewd. Someone is on the ball.

Just out of curiosity

 Neda has so many beautiful pictures, why are you using this picture of hers? 

Official arrest figure has been 1,032 for quite a while

in Tehran, with human rights organizations estimating about 2500 (including outside of Tehran, but mostly in Tehran).

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/07/08/500-protestors-stand-trial-iran

(see my comment below news item).

May one day............................

may one day in very near future see all this traitors be hanged in every trees in Tehran.

//www.sarafrazan.net/Islamic%20Regime%20of%20...

Heroes and Heroines

From every drop of your pure innocent and IRANIAN blood 1000's will rise up to crush the genocidal Akhund regime.

IRAN is proud to have childern like you, rest in peace .... :(

-YT 

All of you are in my mind . . .

All of you are in my mind.  Rest in Peace.

Always remembered - always alive

Every voice counts! Every action counts!

You are in my heart

Shame on you Khamenei

Shame  on you no brain human killer IRI

Shame on you  the Islamic fascist regime of Iran 

One day, you will pay for it.

Thanks to all of you.

God Bless you.

Great idea

As Hamsadeh already mentioned the Guardian has also started to put together a database of the vicitims of IRI during the recent uprising.

You could email simon.jeffery@guardian.co.uk and coordinate with them for a more complete list. 

Good luck and thanks for this great effort

IRANdokht

Thank you for posting this list. Great job

Keep it up.   Are you sure about Mohammad Asgari?  I read somewhere that he is alive and not killed in the car accident.

God Bless them All ...

May These Martyres Never be forgotten ...

God Bless ...

Thank you to whomever ceated and posted this

We need to put together rallies for each of these death. Fo every dead there should one glbal rally and mourn the death of these heroes of freedom and democracy. Soldiers of the motherland and our lions and lionesses

Damn you IRI, Damn you the Islamic fascist regime of Iran 

FREE IRAN

CHEERS

farhad jan

i wish you all the luck in your honorable and morbid task of putting a complete list of those who have been killed or arrested as a result of recent happenings in iran.

here are couple of sites that are doing the same:

the following link provides 29 people dead and 700 people arrested:

//elections.7rooz.com/link/1123/

The guardian has an interactive (just click on any picture and you get info) list of those who've been killed or detained:

//www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jun/29/iran-election-dead-detained

Vatan's Best

www.IranianCemetery.com