Folks, according to CNN:
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called the death of Neda Agha-Soltan "suspicious" and urged the country's authorities to identify those responsible for it, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday.Commentary. Stung by the fallout on Neda's murder in and outside Iran, "reelected" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is launching an all-out information campaign aimed at shifting the blame. Their foregone conclusion? Unspecified Western intelligence agencies are to blame, perhaps the CIA, most likely MI6.
The 26-year-old's death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government's official election results since it was captured on amateur video. Within hours of its being posted online June 20, she had become the iconic victim of the Iranian government crackdown.
But Iran has been pushing back against eyewitness reports that she was shot by pro-government Basij militiamen perched on a rooftop near a demonstration.
Ahmadinejad told the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, to probe the incident and make the results of his investigations public, Fars reported Monday, nine days after Agha-Soltan was killed. See gallery of Neda and the affect of her life »
"The massive propaganda of the foreign media, as well as other evidence, proves the interference of the enemies of the Iranian nation who want to take political advantage and darken the pure face of the Islamic republic," he said in a letter to Shahroudi, according to the news agency.
The letter comes a day after Iran's government-backed Press TV said Agha-Soltan did not die the way the opposition claims.
Scapegoating is in full swing in Iran. In the meantime, Neda is dead and the authorities would not even allow their own people to mourn her according to their own religious rites - or rather, they will as soon as the regime blames her death on the West. Watch out for that too.
In the meantime, remember Neda.
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Ahmadi nejad is a moron. Of course this murderous regime will not admit to the killing of Neda by one of the basij members who wear civilian cloths and armed with hand guns. The doctor who was with Neda said in an interview that the shooter was paramilitary basij member. People beat him up but because they didn't know what to do with him they let him go. The doctor said, people took his id. The killer basiji was scared and telling people that he didn't mean to kill her. Tell this Idiot Ahmadi get on internet and watch the films coming out of Iran to see how basijis and military forces destroying people homes, cars and killing innocent people on the streets.
It is so sad about Neda. Anything the Iranian government says is a lie and will never admit to this atrocity. It was their goon that did this and now they are trying to blame everyone but themselves. Tyrants do this all the time and that government of Iran is a pretty bad one. If they did catch the guy they should have made him pay the price too. I think the Mullahs are getting scared and it shows. It is only a matter of time before they fall.
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