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Reporting from Washington -- President Obama today condemned the ongoing government crackdown on Iranian demonstrators, using his strongest language yet, but declined to spell out consequences for the violence, saying there is still time for officials in that country to respect universal "norms and principles" of freedom.
Obama particularly deplored the shooting of a young Iranian woman during a protest, horrific images of which were captured by a cellphone camera and broadcast around the world in the last 48 hours.
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Jun 22nd, 2009 - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Youtube frames of 'Neda', a young Iranian woman whose face is engulfed in blood, are a horrific image of what some are calling the Tehran spring. They also show the genie unleashed by citizen journalists.
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Jun 22nd, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Tehran -- The first word came from abroad. An aunt in the United States called her Saturday in a panic. "Don't go out into the streets, Golshad," she told her...
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a second term in office on Wednesday. Iranian writer Reza Aslan talks with Steve Inskeep about the opposition which continues to protest the election results. The opposition keeps in mind the death of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman was killed in June during violence that followed the disputed election.(Political Opinion)
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police fired tear gas and beat protesters to disperse thousands chanting "Neda lives!" Thursday at a memorial for victims of post-election violence held at the gravesite of the woman whose death made her an icon of the pro-reform movement, witnesses said.(World News)
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A woman's dying moments were caught on cell phone video and rapidly spread across several social networking websites to paint a clear picture of the violence pro-democracy demonstrators encounter at moments notice. The horrific video that captured the college student's last breaths quickly shifted the world's attention to the sobering reality of(World News)
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