Neda Agha-Soltan Poster – The New Icon – A Cry for Freedom
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Photo Credit: An Early Show
Similar to the image (poster) created by an artist of Barack Obama, someone has created a similar poster representing Neda Agha-Soltan capturing the gruesome moment before she died after being hit by a bullet in the chest.
Neda Agha-Soltan, 27 yrs old, according to news reports is an Iranian student, working as a part-time travel agent who happened to be at one of the protest rallies in Tehran. She was shot in the chest and as she lay down fighting for her life, someone took a cell phone video up to the moment of her death and posted it on Youtube.com.
News reports state that the image of Iran before were usually old-bearded men. With Neda, it shows that Iran has changed. Iran is now represented with a more youthful generation with a definite quest for freedom. Women in Iran have had a great participation in the election which is being thought of by the opposition as fraudulent and warrants another election.
An Early Show showed the poster and immediately became the poster for Iranians who are crying for freedom.
