The protesters have exalted the image of a beautiful young woman, Neda Agha Soltan, who was photographed in a demonstration in Tehran as she lay dying after being shot by an unknown assailant.

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Ghadiri added that the United States may have been behind the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old Iranian woman whose fatal videotaped shooting on Saturday made her a symbol of opposition.

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Thursday would mark the 40th day after the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, whose death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government's official election results since it was captured on amateur video.

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The students also want British authorities to return a suspect allegedly wanted in the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26-year-old woman who became an icon after she was killed during the post election riots in Iran this summer, Fars reported.

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