Neda Agha-Soltan's death two years on: Why have Arab regimes copied Iran's brutality?

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We say that the bullet that was found in her head was not a bullet that you could find in Iran.

These are the bullets that the CIA and terrorist groups use. Of course they warned that there would be bloodshed in these demonstrations and then they could attribute that to the Islamic Republic. This is part of a common act of CIA in various countries."

In contrast to Mr Ghadiri's allegation, it was Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that first declared in a long and hard-line sermon that the elections were valid and warned of violence if demonstrators continue, as they have pledged, to flood the streets in defiance of the government.

Opposition leaders who failed to halt the protests, he said, "would be responsible for bloodshed and chaos." We then all know what happened as the following day, the regime deployed thousands of security forces who brutally repressed the crowds, beating, imprisoning and firing live ammunitions at a peaceful crowd.

 Then during his sermon on June 26, the Supreme Leader's appointed speaker Ayatollah Ahmad Khatamisaid that "evidence shows that protesters have done it themselves and have raised propaganda against the system."

On June 30 2009 however, Iran's police chief, brigadier general Ahmadi-Moghaddam told the press that the Iranian police and the Ministry of Intelligence filed an arrest warrant for Interpol to arrest Dr. Arash Hejazi, an eyewitness of Neda's death who tied to help her as she laid on the floor, for poisoning the international atmosphere against the Iranian government and telling misinformation about Neda's death by giving his account of the incident to foreign news media.^.

The next account came in July 2009, when Ezzatollah Zarghami, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting told the press that the videos of Neda's death were all made by the BBC and CNN.

Finally, in December 2009, the Iranian state television aired a report about Agha-Soltan's death, portraying it as a western plot. The program argued that Neda simulated her death with accomplices, and that she was killed afterwards, having no knowledge of her partners' intentions.

Others allegations, all advanced by Iranian authorities include Neda behing killed by Dr. Arash Hejaziher  and the music teacher who had accompanied her in the demonstration and Neda being an actress, equipped with stage blood, who had been murdered after the event to prevent details of the plot from leaking out.