“don’t be afraid, Neda dear, don’t be afraid”
“don’t be afraid, Neda dear, don’t be afraid”
the video
http://egoblog.net/2009/06/21/her-name-was-neda/
Internet accounts say that Soltan’s father was at her side during her death. But Makan said a white-haired man who is seen pressing on her chest in the video and repeatedly saying “don’t be afraid, Neda dear, don’t be afraid” was actually her music teacher.
She’d grown dissatisfied with her theology studies and had taken up music, as a pianist, he said.
They first met on a vacation in Izmir, Turkey, a town on the Mediterranean, on a vacation tour from Iran. He described Soltan as a plain-spoken woman who loved poetry - Iran’s Rumi and America’s Robert Frost were her favorites.
Makan said that her pacifism made Soltan a “real Iranian.”
“She didn’t believe that we always have to fight and quarrel and be violent and have death,” said Makan. “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.”
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