A young Iranian woman is shot watching the protests with her father.
I post it because … I don’t even know. It’s too important to ignore and too horrifying to watch.
The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.
As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.
Martin Luther King once said – “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.
President Obama
Very hard to watch but really puts it into perspective and keeps it real. It’s not just some story on CNN… It’s lives and real people.
Bearing witness is difficult but not as difficult as those whose hands bore witness to that young woman’s death.
I have been wanting to comment but I don’t know what to say. I did watch it through but couldn’t again.
It’s simply terrifying and I can only imagine how her family must be trying to deal with the loss of their child who is now suddenly a symbol and a martyr.
I didn’t watch it, didn’t want to watch it.
I don’t want to watch it. I once watched a man’s life leave his body after great violence/trauma, and I don’t ever want to witness anything like it again. The dying part is hard enough; the bewilderment that comes before is unbearable.