Iranian doctor says Tehran protester Neda Agha Soltan was gunned down by militiaman

August 20th, 2009 TEHRAN - The man accused of killing Iranian woman protester Neda Soltan during an opposition rally against the June 20 presidential result, has been identified as Abbas Kargar Javid, a pro-government militiaman. The identification challenges the Iranian regime's claim that foreign agents shot the young woman, who became a global symbol of resistance to the Government of President Ahmadinejad.

July 30th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian police and security forces Thursday broke up a demonstration by mourners remembering those killed in recent post-election clashes, and prevented Mir Hussein Moussavi from attending, witnesses said. Police used batons to break up a crowd of several hundred who had gathered around the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan, who died during last month's protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

July 30th, 2009 Iranian police break up graveside demonstrationTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's state-run Press TV says police have used tear gas to break up a memorial rally by around 1,000 opposition supporters at the grave of a woman killed in post-election turmoil. The crowd were gathered in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery Thursday to commemorate those who have died in the government's nearly 7-week-old crackdown against protests that erupted over the disputed June 12 presidential election.

July 30th, 2009 Iranian police bar Mousavi from graveside memorialTEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police blocked opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi from attending a graveside memorial for victims of post-election unrest after he defied a government ban on the gathering. Mousavi, surrounded by hundreds of supporters, was trying to reach the graveside of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman whose shooting death at an anti-government rally on June 20 was caught on video that became one of the iconic images of the upheaval.

July 21st, 2009 Iran police clamp down to prevent protestsTEHRAN, Iran — Security forces and pro-government militiamen clamped down in the Iranian capital to prevent protests Tuesday as the country's police chief warned his forces would take a tough line if the opposition tries to take to the street. Plainclothes Basiji militiamen hit passers-by with batons on a crowded main Tehran street to ensure they wouldn't gather, according to video from the site posted on line.

July 19th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran Sunday freed a British embassy staffer, the last of nine arrested on suspicion in fomenting dissent after alleged fraud in Iran's June 12 presidential elections. Hossein Rassam, chief analyst of the British embassy, had been detained for more than three weeks.

July 11th, 2009 Iranian-Americans rally in front of White HouseWASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters, many of them Iranian-Americans, marched from Capitol Hill to the White House on Saturday, most holding Iranian flags and chanting demands for the U.S. to take more action after Iran's disputed election.

July 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iranian claims that the shooting death of a young Iranian woman was staged during the demonstrations to tarnish the government's image is "shocking" and equate to a "campaign of misinformation", the White House said Wednesday. "That is the ongoing campaign of misinformation about what's going on," spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

July 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iranian claims that the death of a young Iranian woman was staged during the recent demonstrations to tarnish the government's image is "shocking" and equate to a "campaign of misinformation", the White House has said. "That is the ongoing campaign of misinformation about what's going on," spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - A doctor who tried to save the life of pro-democracy martyr Neda Agha-Soltan after she was fatally shot, has told the BBC that the militiaman who fired the bullet did not want to kill her. Dr. Arash Hejazi said that while he was trying to save her life, he heard the militiaman who shot Soltan in the heart last week, saying: 'I didn't want to kill her! Hejazi, who is seen in the now-famous video trying in vain to save the 26-year-old woman by compressing her terrible chest wound, risked his life to talk to the BBC.

June 26th, 2009 Web awash in tributes to slain Iranian protesterEDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

June 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON/TEHRAN - In the four days since her murder on the streets of Tehran, Neda Agha Soltan has become the face of the anti-government movement in Iran. The amateur video of Soltan collapsing on the street Saturday after being shot through the chest, her eyes hauntingly staring into the camera, has now been seen by millions across the world.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - Young girl Neda Agha-Soltan, who became the central rallying cry of the Iranian protests, predicted her violent death by gunfire, but was determined to take part in protests that followed the disputed presidential election. As the violence continues to escalate on the streets of Iran, the beautiful philosophy student who had been engaged to be married, is now being hailed as the country's Joan of Arc.

June 23rd, 2009 Man: Woman killed in Iran protests wanted freedomLOS ANGELES — A man identifying himself as the boyfriend of a young woman whose grisly death in Iran's postelection protests was captured on amateur video said Monday that she only wanted democracy and freedom for the people of Iran. In the video, Neda Agha Soltan is lying on the ground as blood flows from her mouth and nose and onlookers scream.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - The death of Neda, which means "voice" in Farsi, has become the central rallying cry of the Iranian protests that followed the disputed presidential election. Iranian state media has confirmed 17 deaths as a result of the protests.