Who is Neda of Iran?

According to Peter Dauo of Huffington Post her name was Neda Agha-Soltan. Neda was the young lady murdered during a street demonstration on Sunday. I found it odd her last name was not immediately available nor the full identification of the person so attentively attending her right after the shooting rather than making a guess he was her father.

To my knowledge there is no official hospital account, no identification if she was from the Kurdish or Arab community or if she was a student, housewife, mother or a citizen of Iran. There are those calling her a martyr. It just seems strange to me to pronounce a person a martyr making them the symbol of a movement without information other than their first name being made available to the public.

If was obvious Neda Agha-Soltan did not have on the usual and traditional female Muslin attire when the tragic event occurred which raised a red flag to me regarding the “random shooting” theory. We know nothing regarding the random shooting of the other demonstrators regarding their sex and, if they were females, their attire.

During a mass street demonstration and with all those people around it is hard to imagine a random shooter getting away. I can understand how that happened when James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King there were not many people around; not as many as attending the demonstration Neda attended and I extend my prayers to her family and friends.

Finally, we are informed the family was TOLD to bury her the next day. What happened to the autopsy for various verifications if for none other than official records and very importantly the origin and trajectory of the bullet? When making a martyr a lot of information has to be released.

In my opinion, to leave all those young people leaderless at this point adds to the unfolding tragedies regarding Iran's woes. Sad.
As always,
BB

Neda's Martyrdom and the Pitfalls of Obama's Chronic Pragmatism

A gruesomely captivating video of a young woman -- laid out on a Tehran street after apparently being shot, blood pouring from her mouth and then across her face -- swept Twitter, Facebook and other websites this weekend. The woman rapidly became a symbol of Iran's escalating crisis, from a political confrontation to far more ominous physical clashes. Some sites refer to her as "Neda," Farsi for the voice or the call. Tributes that incorporate startlingly upclose footage of her dying have started to spring up on YouTube. Although it is not yet clear who shot "Neda" (a soldier? pro-government militant? an accidental misfiring?), her death may have changed everything.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-daou/nedas-martyrdom-and-the-p_b_218787.html