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| Nov 28, 2009 at 05:21 PM | |
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Taraneh Mousavi, a 19-year-old girl who was arrested during demonstrations, raped in detention and her body was burned. Neda Agha Soltan, a 26-year old who died of a bullet wound shot by the bassiji forces in the streets of Tehran
Senator John McCain of Arizona gave a speech in front of the senate summing up the situation in Iran. Senator McCain called the death of Neda a defining moment. “Today, I and all America pays tribute to a brave young woman who was trying to exercise her fundamental human rights and was killed in the streets of Tehran. All American’s are with her. Our thoughts and our prays are with her”.
Congressman Thaddeus McCotter speaking about Taraneh and Neda: I'd ask Supreme Leader Khamenei to look at this picture. Her name is Taraneh Mousavi. She was arrested near Ghoba Mosque, where she was on her way to attend hairdressing college. After her arrest, she was raped, sodomized and tortured by her captors, taken to a hospital in a coma, and it was there that she died. Upon her death, her body was removed to the outskirts of Karaj Qasim where, to prevent an autopsy, it was burned.She came from a religious family. Taraneh was only 19 and an only child. Her family has been threatened to keep quiet, and yet the resistance wants her story out. Why? Because here's the truth denied by Khamenei and his misogynistic, murderous regime: Your referendum has been held and you have failed your test. Taraneh and Neda condemn you as the despicable killers of women. You have no legitimacy either in the eyes of the Iranian people or in the eyes of the civilized world. You are doomed by your own hands, and it is but a matter of time until your regime collapses and the Iranian people breathe free. July 21, 2009
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