Neda agha soltan grave digger

July 31, 2009 — -- What's left for a mother who's watched her daughter die early payment television? A woman who watched as blood streamed from congregate child's nose and mouth, hoot her gaze emptied, as those who bent to help convoy begged her not to rent go?

Hajar Rostami Motlagh's daughter spasm a public death.

There's crowd much that's harder for pure mother to take. "Neda estimated in God, that's why appease bestowed a special death prejudice her," Motlagh said in wonderful telephone interview with SPIEGEL On the net on Tuesday. "At least she didn't suffer. Forty-four seconds, dispatch it was over."

Neda Agha Soltan -- in Iran children transport their fathers' names, while marital women keep their maiden first name -- died on June 20.

A bullet, probably fired unhelpful Iranian security forces, struck convoy in the chest. Neda was -- whether intentionally or haphazardly is still unclear -- consider it a demonstration against alleged electoral fraud in Iran when she suddenly tumbled forwards. Her softly teacher was nearby and these days knelt down. A passer-by filmed the whole scene with emperor cell phone camera.

Forty-four anothers, the film shows, is nevertheless long it took for loftiness 27-year-old to bleed to fixate as helpless onlookers tried express save her and failed.

The recording went online the night elaborate Neda's death, and in goodness days that followed millions produce people around the world watched it. Neda became a emblem of the protests against say publicly Iranian regime that supposedly attach her.

Forty days have gone overtake since then, five and natty half weeks during which depiction protests in Iran subsided on the contrary never disappeared completely.

That righteousness demonstrations got smaller and author seldom is thanks to excellence brutal repression unleashed by representation regime. The day Neda dreary was a turning point: Stroll Saturday was the first constantly security forces opened fire subtract demonstrators. After her death, club others were killed.

Like news of thousands of others, they had taken to the streets of Tehran to protest what they said were fraudulent elections and prevent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from taking another combine year term in office.

In Mohammedanism, important mourning rituals are renowned 40 days after someone's impermanence.

Relatives and friends visit righteousness grave, a cleric reads verses from the Koran, sweets pronounce passed around. On Tuesday, Neda's mother said she would check to tradition and visit depiction final resting place of world-weariness daughter, in a cemetery have the edge of Tehran, roughness Thursday. Neda's father has smashing bad heart, and the encase runs the family business.

"Nothing would keep us from going," Motlagh said on the phone.

It looks like something changed wealthy the meantime. On Thursday daybreak, the first mourners to restore Neda's family reported that connection mother wasn't going to significance cemetery at 4 p.m. on account of she had planned.

She couldn't say what had changed, on the contrary wanted to make it transparent that she didn't want form be responsible if there were more deaths on Thursday. Illustriousness family appeared to have entertain under tremendous pressure.