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Video: Preview FRONTLINE’s “A Death in Tehran”
Friday, November 13th, 2009

“A Death in Tehran” premieres Tuesday, November 17 at 9pm on THIRTEEN

At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death — filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web — quickly became an international outrage, and Agha Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government’s hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive. The film also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran since the 1979 revolution: How many were arrested and killed as the security forces attempted to contain the growing protest movement? To what extent was the presidential vote manipulated? What is the future of the movement that seems to have been silenced?

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Urmi -- November 13th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

Very powerful picture and it just reiterates that freedom is one of our fundamental rights.

Maurice Chayt -- November 14th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

We are unable to restore to life Neda Soltani, but the memory of her untimely and unseemly death as a peaceful protester should be preserved. Her image should be placed on buttons to be distributed at all protests against the suppression of free speech.

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