Timeline of the 2009 Iranian election protests forces shut down a scheduled solidarity march through the streets of Cairo, planned in honor of Neda Agha Soltan. Egyptian dissidents accused their government of hypocrisy, for having denounced the Iranian regime's repressive actions only days before banning the march. On the floor of the Iranian Parliament, a physical confrontation broke out between MP Pezeshkian, who had urged the regime to show restraint, and hard-line MPs. Signs of unrest continued today. Motorists in Tehran beeped their horns to signal their support for Mousavi, prompting basiji patrols to slash tires and break windshields. Meanwhile, in response to rumors of a human
Arash Hejazi known novel "The Princess of the Land of Eternity" was shortlisted for two major Iranian literary prizes and has sold more than 20,000 copies in Iran since its first publication in 2003. He in 2009 he received his MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. His dissertation on censorship in Iran was published in the publishing journal "Logos" in 2011, and his memoir "The Gaze of the Gazelle" about growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution was published by Chicago University Press in 2011. He was present at the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests,