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14Jun/11

Where the Dead Are Considered Dangerous

The world will never have a peaceful Iran until it has a free

By HOMAYOUN MOBASSERI AND NIR BOMS

Wall Steet Journal, 6/15/2011

 

At last month’s Group of Eight meeting in France, world leaders observed that the “Arab Spring” actually began in Iran. They were right: Today’s Middle Eastern uprisings began when Neda Agha Soltan was shot to death in the streets of Tehran in the summer of 2009. She died with her eyes open as millions of people poured into the streets demanding change after rigged presidential elections that June. The demonstrators received little support from the democracies of Europe or America.

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