Iran Update
This is from the CNN coverage Violence flares again in Tehran
Iran is saying that the woman who has emerged as an emblem of the Iranian government’s crackdown against protesters might have been shot dead by “mistake,” the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday.
The report said the investigation into the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is ongoing, “but according to the evidence so far, it could be said that she was killed by mistake. The marksmen had mistaken her for the sister of one of the Monafeghin who had been executed in the Province of Mazandaran some time ago.”
Monafeghin refers to the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran, which promotes a secular, Marxist government for Iran and has waged a violent campaign against the fundamentalist Islamic Tehran government — including bombings that killed politicians, judges and cabinet members.
Is it “Islamic” to assassinate, without arrest or trial, the sisters of terrorists? Where is that found in the Quran or Sharia law?
CNN also reported Iranian football stars ‘retired’ after match protest. I would hope that FIFA again imposes sanctions on Iran, as they did in 2006, for political interference. Americans have never really understood about the place of football [soccer] in most of the world, but FIFA [the international body that rules football] sanctions have more meaning for the average citizen than UN Security Council resolutions. Consider what would happen in the US if the government caused the NFL and NASCAR seasons to be canceled.
