Neda Agha Soltan, the young Iranian woman whose shooting death in June 2009 became a symbol of the protest movement that erupted after the disputed presidential elections of that year, was mourned on Wednesday at a cemetery in Tehran. Police fired live bullets into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Iran on Thursday, witnesses said, killing one protester and wounding others in the first deadly confrontation since the biggest anti-government protests for nearly a decade. The shooting took place in the western city of Izeh, where residents had gathered to mourn a man who died during a protest against the government on Wednesday night. The violence was the first since protests broke out last Thursday and spread from one end of Iran to another.
Despite the authorities pressure on the family to recall the 40 th days ceremony for #Mahsa_Amini , thousands gather on Mahsa’s grave chanting “Kurdistan will be the graveyard of fascists” “women , life, freedom” pic.twitter.com/ifH9h3DHsv
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Nima, a student at the University of Tehran said, “We are facing such a difficult situation in Iran. We have so many problems. We have economic problems and political problems and cultural problems. We are all fed up with our government. We have no freedom, no democracy, and no rights. The Iranian people want to change their situation but the government doesn’t listen.”