Death of Neda Agha-Soltan in the overthrowing of Iran's monarchy. On 22 June, Iranian presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who were contesting the validity of the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called upon Iranian citizens to commemorate Āghā-Soltān. Karroubi announced his appeal on Facebook, asking demonstrators to gather in the center of the Iranian capital at 4:00 pm local time. The chief of the Tehran Police announced that his department had no involvement in the fatal incident. Later that day, riot police armed with live ammunition and tear gas dispersed a crowd of between 200 and 1,000 protesters who had gathered in Tehran's
Neda Soltani that she was the same person as Agha-Soltan, and had faked her own death, and others who claimed that she was herself an agent of the Iranian government, impersonating Agha-Soltan to sully her memory. Within two weeks, she had to flee from Iran to avoid arrest. She was granted asylum in Germany in 2010. , Soltani remains exiled from Iran, and is under Germany's asylum. She has authored a book, "My Stolen Face", narrating her story of the incident. Neda Soltani Neda Soltani (Persian: ندا سلطانی); born 1977, in Isfahan, is an Iranian exile. During the 2009 Iranian election protests,