Death of Neda Agha-Soltan asylum in Germany in 2010. On 20 June 2009, at around 6:30 p.m., Neda Agha-Soltan was sitting in her Peugeot 206 in traffic on Kargar Avenue in Tehran. She was accompanied by her music teacher, Hamid Panahi. They were on their way to participate in the protests against the results of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. The car's air conditioner was not working well, so she stopped her car some distance from the main protests and got out on foot to escape the heat. She was standing and observing the sporadic protests in the area when she was shot in
Death of Neda Agha-Soltan about Nedā's death by giving his account of the incident to foreign news media. Ezzatollah Zarghami, the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, told the press on 4 July 2009 that the videos of Nedā's death were all made by BBC and CNN. In December 2009, Iranian state television aired a report about Āghā-Soltān's death, portraying it as a western plot. In the programme, it was argued that Āghā-Soltān simulated her death with accomplices, and that she was killed afterwards, having no knowledge of her partners' intentions. According to "The Times", quoted from Mākān and Āghā-Soltān's parents, officials tried