Making and impressive appearance is Maziar Bahari, best known as a Newsweek correspondent who was jailed for months for doing nothing more than being a journalist in the wrong place at the wrong time. It took months of negotiation and even Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's expertise to get him out of the his hellhole. He has much to say about the illegitimacy of the government that holds sway in Iran now, and predicts that even as it has cracked down, it lacks the heart to last much longer.
But there are many other experts also to keep the conversation lively, including the doctor, Arash Hejazi, who attended Neda in her final minutes. Regardless of the way she seems to be pleading with her eyes in the famous cell phone videos, He said that once she was shot in the heart, she only lived a few minutes. What is so ironic is that after he and her music teacher ministered to her, the Iranian government — in its clownish way of trying to pin the blame on someone else, first blamed the CIA, then on CNN, then on the BBC, and then on him.
Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran speaks of the way women got the worst treatment right from the beginning of the Iranian Revolution and now are getting the worst treatment during this uprising. So, it is appropriate that Neda is the one to be the martyr. Someone remarks that a government woman told Neda that it was dangerous for her to be out in the streets being so beautiful, because to "these men beauty is dangerous." It's a telling statement of how perverted their version of a once-loving religion has become.
Don't look for any even-handedness in this documentary here. Written, directed and produced by Antony Thomas, this film has a western slant against Iran's current government that's in keeping with our current leaders. Near the end, her father looks into the camera lens and says, "If the murderer was not from this government, you would have found him."
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Article comments
1 - puya
In Iraq? You should be ashamed of yourself for not even knowing the proper country the revolution took place. Your credibility as a journalist just went down the drain for a lot of people. Get the country right before I read on.
2 - M.A
IraQ? Honestly, after 7 years of invading IraQ I wish Americans would know the difference before IraQ and IraN!! Disgraceful and sloppy - and its not the first time this has happened and sadly wont be the last
3 - doug m
Careful. This experienced journalist hates to be corrected when she makes mistakes. But to be fair that is simply a typo in that sentence. It's not as if she got Nada's gender wrong, which wouldn't have been a surprise.
4 - FCEtier
Yeah, y'all just chill. I know the author AND the editor. This is a typo.
I have every confidence that the editor will atone for this shortly.
5 - Miss Bob Etier
I see there are a few people out there who believe erasers weren't put on pencils for them. Me? I make typos all the time--lots of 'em. I usually catch them before they are published, but a few do get through now and then (they are the real illegal aliens).
#1 and #2: if you would have read further, you would have seen Lynn refers to Iran throughout her article. Simple deduction? Iraq was a typo.
#3 Why are you always so nasty?
Most of us on Blogcritics, whether readers or writers, read A LOT. Sadly, many of the highly edited/proofread books that make it to publication (some on the NYT bestsellers list) contain typos. People aren't perfect. Spell-checkers aren't perfect. And, yes, editors and writers are both people. The evidence of errors in books from big publishing houses does not excuse my errors, but I should think it explains them.
I am glad that our readers have no worse problems than their agitation at our occasional errors (and I wouldn't be surprised if this comment was full of them); too bad one letter blinds them to the quality of the overall work. As for the sniping and character assassination, it's unattractive, reflects poorly on those posting such comments, and demeans this forum.
6 - doug m
Spare the hysterical hyperbole. I am not always nasty as my comments throughout the site clearly indicate, yet that doesn't stop you from your own bit of character assassination. Do as I say and not as I do, eh?
7 - Miss Bob Etier
#6. I'm a parent, and I'm old-school. Of course I believe "Do as I say and not as I do."
8 - JMB aka CL
TROLLS - that's ALL they are, internet trolls- it is SO obvious this is a typo but trolls LOVE to make a big deal about a typo JUST to discredit someone. M.A, Puya, doug m, NICE TRY; the only ones that lost credibility here are YOU.
Go back to your FOX hole... and simmer.
9 - JMB aka CL
funnier yet- if this person supposedly makes so many mistakes writing, why do you bother reading her stuff?
"Hysterical hyperbole"? Look who's talkin'.
PS That is easily resolved by having actual sex. Your aggression will lighten up too, MISS Doug M.