Iran by Neda

by Paulo Coelho on June 23, 2009

My best friend in Iran, a doctor who showed me its beautiful culture when I visited Teheran in 2000, who fought a war in the name of the Islamic Republic (against Iraq), who took care of wounded soldiers in the frontline, who always stood by real human values, is seen here trying to resuscitate Neda – hit in her heart.

You can follow Iran in crisis : live here

UPDATE 23/04 10:50 PM: GOD WILLING, I WILL HAVE NEWS FROM MY FRIEND TOMORROW AFTER 2:00 PM, THEN I WILL POST HERE NOT ONLY HIS NAME, BUT ALSO OUR EXCHANGE OF EMAILS. FROM THEN ON, THIS BLOG WILL RETURN TO ITS ORIGINAL FORMAT, EXCEPT BY RUMI’S VERSES, THAT I WILL UPDATE DAILY, TILL THE END OF THIS WEEK.

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Nili June 26, 2009 at 9:39 am

Paulo, the contemporary Alchemist
Thanks

navid June 26, 2009 at 8:59 am

:-( thank you paulo

pooria June 26, 2009 at 8:52 am

you are such a nice guy
thank you for your concern ….

negar June 26, 2009 at 8:51 am

Neda you are live in hearts not only in iran rather in a everywhere and everytime

aria June 26, 2009 at 8:47 am

Thank you for your solidarity . Gracias

javad June 26, 2009 at 8:43 am

Hi thank you for resposnibility and humanity.

Neda June 26, 2009 at 8:02 am

WE ARE ALL NEDA

moe June 26, 2009 at 7:59 am

Dear Paolo,

I realy appreciate your comment regard Neda.

Ali June 26, 2009 at 7:45 am

very impressive, I also appriciate it, I think we need your help at this time. but on blog!! I can’t say anything…

Ahmad June 26, 2009 at 7:39 am

Thanks for your sympathy. World will value your nobility.

saman June 26, 2009 at 7:38 am

Thanks Mr Coelho. for remembering Iran

Y-K June 26, 2009 at 7:30 am

I really do appreciate the greatest writer in the world is following the misery of Iran in these days
keep on Paulo. it really help us take heart

nasy June 26, 2009 at 7:19 am

hello paulo

neda has become our warrior of light!!!!
she is Iran’s angel… we will always remember her.
thank you for showing your concern.
i loved your books,every each of them…

Bijan June 26, 2009 at 7:10 am

hello:dear paulo
people says love make man blind,and i say thats true,but i saw and i felt things which i coudent see or feel otherwise so i tell them let me live and die blind of love.

Neda were i n love .althow enemy blived she were blind.neda told them let me live or die of love.
thank you

Sohrab June 26, 2009 at 7:09 am

This means a lot to us…

fardin June 26, 2009 at 6:47 am

in the name of freedom…
in the name of iran…
in the name of Neda…
we’ll win!

ameneh June 26, 2009 at 6:46 am

Dear Paolo
I greatly appreciate your concenrs for what i happeniing in iran these days.
Iranian love your books and learn alot from you,.
Hope there will be a day in Iran we can see freedom and democrocy.
Thank you
ameneh

Omid June 26, 2009 at 6:25 am

Hi Paula,
I just can say thanks for carying!

All we can see here is the fact that people are selfish and for staying in power they can kill as many people.

Thanks,
Omid

Ali Reza June 26, 2009 at 6:06 am

Thank U! those big liers who control the public media and when their supporters kill innocent ppl in Iranian street here also try to mislead public openion. All Iranian ppl, including those who were beside her when she was shot told the press that she was shot by “Basij” which is a religious militia under Khamenie’s command, but here faceless Khoshbayan who most probably is one of those criminals among Ahmadinejad’s suporters says nobody knows who killed Neda.

Mohammad Reza June 26, 2009 at 6:03 am

I shout;
I’m Proud to be IRANian!

Navid June 26, 2009 at 5:54 am

Neda will stay in our mind 4ever.
Thak you Mr Coelho

Soroush June 26, 2009 at 5:49 am

thank u!

Sam June 26, 2009 at 5:49 am

It means a lot to us!

Thank you Mr. Coelho.

Sam

ati June 26, 2009 at 5:42 am

dear paulo coelho,my dear Hero
i want to say thank you for all attention that you have for my country,these days we need every singel supporter for our green cause,for obtaining freedom,democracy and happiness,which is the basic things in the life,for living.
we show the world that we are not terorist,we are not wild,we are green,kind,and chivalrous…we will die for our own freedom,for our homeland,even if we were in other countries.
i love all of your books,all of them and my personality made from those books,but the “piedra river” was the best one for me,and i love that solidarity you descriabe in that book,between a small group.
we are not a small group now,we are all ONE we are all NEDA,who was my sister,although ive never seen her.
i know that you believe on god,so please pray for us…we need it much more than so many other things.
God is with us,so we are always victor.
God bless you

aditya June 26, 2009 at 8:05 am: ati,

what is th basic issue, amidst all this confusion i am unable to understand what is the basic cause for the unrest, what are u poeple aiming for. what is your complaint. Neda getting killed is definately very sad, but i don’t think anyone aimed for her and shot her. when law enforcement authorities are faced with mobs, humanity starts sliding back away from lofty ideals which those laws are supposed to protect. one is reminded of past masscre of students in chaina’s tinammen square. such acts of oppression exposes the ruling regiems real feeling towards the very people they are oathbound to work for. a regime that does not ‘respect’ it’s people is bound to fall, as we have seen repeatedly across centuries.

freedom has never been won without sacrifices, and you too will win your freedom ( but are u chaps not alreday free, when u have a right to vote and choose your president ), insaallh !

love
aditya

sarbaze vatan June 26, 2009 at 5:33 am

Neda is not an Iranian girl. She is a girl from humanity,freedom,noble and peace. She is a symbol of women who seek even right with men. She is “Neda” and it means ” Call”. So she call for people to join her great goals

Maryam June 26, 2009 at 5:20 am

Thank you dear Paolo. I’ve been your fan for years and I love you even more.

raha June 26, 2009 at 2:35 am

thanks paulo
your books are in my weblog
a summary of 3 or four books in persian

masoudeh June 25, 2009 at 11:40 pm

the world don’t have less ugly
ugly in the world become more if human closed his eyes

ali.m June 25, 2009 at 9:50 pm

it’s all an intigue! complicated condition in iran and some people who are trying to make it worse…!
by the way…i’m not that much interested in policy…cuz it’s fundamental a big lie! and i’m sorry for neda and all the people which are toys in the hands of politicians, from government or not!… but i am too much interested in your books..and i just want to thank you about it…wish you the best

farzad June 25, 2009 at 9:37 pm

hello and thanks.
this days for we iranian is bitter.
very bitter.

marde-mokhtasar.

shahram June 25, 2009 at 8:44 pm

thank u !

03031112 June 25, 2009 at 8:31 pm

hi my dear paolo

i am so sad for neda ………….:(

MAjidi June 25, 2009 at 8:02 pm

Dear Paulo,
Thanks for your attention
Neda remain in our mind for always

hosein June 25, 2009 at 7:33 pm

thank…

Eli June 25, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Long Life Iran!

Miss Adam June 25, 2009 at 6:59 pm

We all love you who care for Freedom of a country which outwardly not related to… Thanks, thank YOU so much :X

negin from iran June 25, 2009 at 6:29 pm

in the name of peace
in the name of freedom
in the name of neda
thank you

mostafa mardani June 25, 2009 at 4:12 pm

We had a vision. A world without ahmadi nezhad! But he have a vision. A world without Iran!
Thanks Paolo

Keith June 25, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Tonight on BBC Radio 4 (8pm BST, 1900 GMT) there will be a half hour report on Iran from John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, who was recently expelled from Iran.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8116825.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lmqhl

Keith June 25, 2009 at 3:53 pm

How does the Supreme Being justify breaking one of the most fundamental Islamic rights. Allah Almighty said – mn ktl nafsa beghayr nfsen fa kaannma ktl al nas gmeaan,, wa mn ahiaha fa kaannma ahiaa al nas gmeaan – which literally translates as

whosoever killed a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind.

We all felt the death of Neda.

Keith June 25, 2009 at 3:31 pm

Thanks to Robert for posting the link to the article in the Daily Mail. It brought tears to my eyes reading it. Had I realised it was in that day’s paper, I would have gone out and bought a copy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1194641/YouTube-martyr-Neda-Agha-Soltanis-final-plea-shot-dead-Iran-rally.html

Reading the comments by Caspian Makan, fiancé of Neda, it brings home that she was a true Warrior of Light.

She didn’t believe that we always have to fight and quarrel and be violent and have death.

Neda only ever said that she wanted one thing, she wanted democracy and freedom for the people of Iran.

There’s only one thing (Iranians) must fight and that’s ignorance. And you don’t fight ignorance with a sword or a gun. You turn on a light.

From twitter:

If an innocent girl gets shot halfway across the world, does she make a sound? Yes, the whole world hears her.

According to her boyfriend, Neda loved poetry, especially Iran’s Rumi and America’s Robert Frost.

Paulo featured Persian poet Rumi on his blog and ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost features in The Winner Stands Alone.

saeid June 25, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Thank dear Paulo. you were Iranian favorite and now you are more favorite.
wish to peace and freedom

omid June 25, 2009 at 2:05 pm

dear sir

thanks alot for your concern. please tell the world about the bad conditions. All of us are sad, worry, angry but also hopeful. we will try our best. we will reach our goal.

ashkan June 25, 2009 at 1:00 pm

dear neda, even stone cry for u, u live 4 ever in the heart of iranian people!

dorsa titan June 25, 2009 at 12:56 pm

hi, thx you alot for this picture although i couldn’t see it but before i saw it i’m so sad for Neda and we all fight instead Neda.
Good luck although you are luck

sahar June 25, 2009 at 12:31 pm