Top 10 Heroes of 2009: Neda Agha-Soltan

Time Magazine released it’s Top 10 Everything list for 2009– on the Top 10 Heroes, none other than Neda Agha-Soltan was named the #2 Hero of 2009. Seeing Neda recognized for her boldness and fight for freedom makes me proud as an Iranian to know that the whole world has been able to see the beautiful people Iran struggle to be free from oppression. Neda is a beautiful example of the millions of other Iranians who want nothing more than basic Human Rights and Freedom for Iran. May we never forget to stop fighting and praying for the people of Iran.

Neda Agha-Soltan was an unintentional hero. On June 20, the 26-year-old Iranian had just stepped out of her car on a quiet side street near a clash between pro- and anti-government forces when a shot rang out, piercing her chest. Agha-Soltan’s bloody, panicked last moments, captured by a mobile-phone camera and uploaded to the Internet, turned into probably the most widely witnessed death in human history. Almost immediately, the philosophy student with little interest in politics became a symbol of the opposition movement against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s widely disputed re-election. In the days and weeks that followed, Agha-Soltan’s name became a battle cry for Iranian protesters, her face a symbol for the thousands of people who suffered under the government’s heavy-handed crackdown.

See The 2009 Top 10 Of Everything Here.