The picture-perfect martyr

CNN: "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," 23 June 2009.

Neda, who can be iconically rendered in both modern and traditional guises, is exactly the sort of rallying point the opposition is looking for: an educated, modern Iranian female brutally murdered on the street.

Comments

[Louis Heberlein]

Certainly lucky there was someone there to capture the picture and story, and the technology to share it so widely and quickly.

[bill westcott]

Several weeks ago I read "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ." Martyrdom seems to be part of the Persian-Shia culture. I am also reading your latest book. I only read one book in college concerning economic development. It is an interesting subject that is mostly theoretical to me. Iran seems to be evolving into an African style petro-dictatorship.