Iran’s post-election tumult has provided the world with a very different image of that nation from the one that was common only a few months ago.
It is no longer just the country of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and anti-western mullahs who complete their Friday prayers with calls for “death to America” and death to Israel”. Rather it is the country of millions of people who peacefully, and in many cases valiantly, stood up for their rights and are now being subjected to grotesque show trials.
More importantly, it is the country of a new heroine, Neda Agha-Soltan, who was brutally murdered in the plain view of millions of TV viewers throughout the world.
