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Iranian Leaders Blaming CIA, Protestors, for Killing Neda
June 26, 2009 9:55 AM
In his Friday prayer sermon, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami called for the government to protest the "leaders of protests, who were supported by the United States and Israel, strongly and with cruelty so it will be a lesson for everyone."
Khatami also said that 26-year-old protestor Neda Agha Soltan, shot last Saturday and memorialized by protestors as a martyr for their cause, was killed by those protestors.
"The proof and evidence shows that they have done it themselves and have raised propaganda against the system," Khatami said. "I say hereby that these deceitful media have to know that the ordeal will be over and shame will remain for them."
On CNN, the LA Times' Top of the Ticket reports, the Iranian Ambassador to Mexico, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri, said, speaking through a translator, "this death of Neda is very suspicious. She was shot from behind. The location was where there was not much demonstration, there was no police presence and the gun that shot and killed her was a smuggled gun. It was not a government-issued gun. In our view, this would be the work of those who wanted to put more fuel to the flame against the government."
Ghadiri said, "My question is that how is that this Nada was shot from behind and several cameras take that. And this is done in an area where there was no important demonstration. If the CIA wants to kill some people and attribute that to the elements of the government, and then choosing a girl would be something good for them because it would have much higher impact. Therefore, we believe and we are looking into this to find who the elements were who did this."
Asked Wolf Blitzer, incredulously, "Are you seriously accusing the CIA of killing Neda?"
Said Ghadiri, "We say that the bullet that was found in her head was not a bullet that you could find in Iran. These are the bullets that the CIA and terrorist groups use. Of course they warned that there would be a bloodshed in these demonstrations and then they could attribute that to the Islamic republic. This is part of a common act of CIA in various countries...I'm not saying that the CIA had done this. There are different groups. Could be intelligence services, could be CIA, could be the terrorists."
Responded George Little of the CIA Office of Public Affairs: “Any suggestion that the CIA was responsible for the death of this young woman is wrong, absurd, and offensive.”
-jpt
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ONLY AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI CAN KILL PEOPLE IN IRAN ....... ALL ORDERS IS COMEING FROM KHAMENEI . THAT'S IT. AND NEDA HAS BEEN KILLED BY HIM . BECAUSE HE SAID IN FRONT OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE . AND WARNING DOES PEOPLE WHO EVER LIVE IN IRAN ,TEHRAN. BY THE WAY I'M FRIM IRAN.
Posted by: NICK | Jul 16, 2009 10:31:42 PM
Operation Ajax...that was Iran.
Posted by: Micah Burnett | Jun 29, 2009 5:30:57 PM
The CIA says this is absurd and offensive???? Please. Lookup Operation Ajax on Wikipedia for just one example of the CIA committing false-flag terrorism to overthrow a pro-western government because they wanted to control their own national resources.
Our Republic
Posted by: Micah Burnett | Jun 29, 2009 5:29:43 PM
Obama just could not act differently - the great part of Iran;s population voted for current president, so how can one insist he should take any side.
He protested against violence - exactlty what should be done in this circumstances.
Posted by: Linda,Fl | Jun 28, 2009 8:27:18 AM
Does our propaganda media like to play dumb?
The Bankers clean up after the AIPAC 911 cover up.
Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
Uncle Tom or Uncle Sam?
Neocon Obama?
Posted by: nader paul kucinich gravel | Jun 27, 2009 3:46:21 AM
Oh, yeah. And I suppose the CIA was involved with Prague, Budapest and the Solidarity Movement in Poland as well.
Lefists won't buy anything that common people do unless there's some radical students from a university somewhere with big red flags leading the way.
Posted by: Tobias | Jun 27, 2009 2:08:39 AM
I firmly believe in doing unto others BEFORE they do unto me.
Posted by: Terry
so why hasn't Israel eliminated all the Palestinians then, Hamas hides among them, they're a constant threat and you can't tell from anyone else...
guess we should have launched nukes at them russkies in the 60's...
and let MacArthur bomb China...
and you say "And I'm definitely not into suffering."
right.....
Posted by: XXX | Jun 27, 2009 12:44:46 AM
That's what Obama gets for not meddling.
Posted by: Fructuoso Solano-Revuelta | Jun 26, 2009 7:56:47 PM
For my part, I who could completely rule out the possibility of an indirect connection with internal violence and third elements from outside Iran, stiring conflict between a possible US/Iran improved relationship...a threat that would be impossible if the Iranian leadership did not tacitly support a hodge-podge of 'volunteer' street bullies.
Posted by: MarkLeavenworth | Jun 26, 2009 5:52:39 PM
I would like to hear them say that it is not possible that some disorderly Basij 'volunteer' or 'volunteers', tacitly supported by some elements of the Iranian leadership, were responsible for this, or other sporadic killings/beatings.
Posted by: MarkLeavenworth | Jun 26, 2009 5:43:42 PM
The CIA is definitely involved in this. They pulled the same crap back in 1953.
Posted by: CIA AIC | Jun 26, 2009 4:17:22 PM
Obama's idea of engagement or whatever he call it is no diffent... Posted by: Terry | Jun 26, 2009 3:20:34 PM
I don't think the President is intentially being a coward or weak. I think he actually thinks he can persuade them to stop. It's who he is. I think it has become a learned behavior on his part due to the responses to his words and his actions he's received since childhood.
Posted by: Traffic Cop Timmy | Jun 26, 2009 3:53:48 PM
Skip, I agree with you in part. My disagreement was and is as follows: How many realestate agents, finance companies/banks were "technically" forced to give loans to those who could not afford a home or who had shady credit and did so in the name or making the failed and BS attempt of righting the wrongs of the past?
Posted by: kmday | Jun 26, 2009 3:20:50 PM
Borneo - I'm sorry but I don't know anything about Maximillion Kolbe so the reference is lost on me. Yes, indeed, integrity without risk is meaningless & stories about people's courage always touches me greatly.
But what I have been saying is that often choices in life are all bad. There is nothing funny about war but sometimes the consequences of NOT going to war are so much worse ultitmately.
This whole conversation started because I said we should eliminate the Iranian regime. There is no acceptable level of risk in allowing crazy fanatics to obtain nuclear weapons. The consequences will be far far worse than a preemptive action. I equate these monsters with the Nazis - their ideology, in my mind, is no different.
Obama's idea of engagement or whatever he call it is no diffent than the Neville Chamberlain appeasement of Hitler. It's the easy way out, short-term. To me, this is both intellectually dishonest & lacking in integrity.
Posted by: Terry | Jun 26, 2009 3:20:34 PM
"4) The only way to get ahead in business is through cheating, if YOU don't cheat, too, you are a loser."
Several times before the election when I was debating with real estate agents and lenders about the housing bubble they would say things like they were 'forced' to sell houses and give sketchy loans because of the way the market was stuctured. They claimed they 'had to'. Not being in these professions myself I considered that maybe they did, but now I think they just didn't have the ethical fortitude to stand back and watch everyone else make big bucks doing what they knew was wrong.
Posted by: Skip | Jun 26, 2009 3:17:06 PM
Okay.....so now can we get back to disagreeing.....LOL
Posted by: kmday | Jun 26, 2009 3:13:49 PM
kmday,
I am only apologizing for my tone. I was being a jerk.
I still have the same strong opinions. And even if I am personally invested in these opinions, I am not personally angry at anyone who disagrees (even if I do get tired of the knee-jerk quality of a lot of the responses I read).
I shouldn't be disrespecting anyone.
Posted by: borneo | Jun 26, 2009 3:11:46 PM
Borneo...why on earth are you apologizing for your opinion/stance on an issue? Never ever ever apologize for your opinion because it is when we apologize for what we stand for/believe in that makes us stop being who we are.
Never conform, especially when it is not who YOU are!
I live by these everyday and will until I cease to physicall exist:
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying amen to what society tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive~Robert Louis Stevenson
Posted by: kmday | Jun 26, 2009 3:08:22 PM
If we were in the same room, I'd buy you a beer (and one for Timmy, too).
Posted by: borneo | Jun 26, 2009 3:06:50 PM
Borneo - I'm not offended by anything you said, I'm not very sensitive actually. You have a right to your opinion no matter what I think of it.
I would agree with you that we live in a society of the lowest common denominator, a dumbed-down disaster.
I can barely watch TV or movies anymore, most of today's music is utter trash, & much public discourse is just stupid (in my opinion). Slogans & superficial BS rhetoric seems the order of the day.
Posted by: Terry | Jun 26, 2009 3:05:01 PM
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