Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship the country the status of "international basket case". While the problems of Iran were no longer front-page news, it said, they still existed. In the circumstances, the editorial concluded, "A scholarship at The Queen’s College in memory of Neda Soltan is, indeed, politically motivated, and admirably so". UK diplomatic sources, speaking anonymously to "The Times", said that if the government had been asked, it would have advised against the creation of the scholarship, because Iran would see it as an act of provocation, and because it would interfere with efforts to free Iranians working for the British Embassy in Tehran
Antony Thomas film "For Neda", made by Thomas with the help of Saeed Kamali Dehghan, on the death of Iranian demonstrator Neda Agha-Soltan, was released. Kamali Dehghan secretly filmed Neda's family and obtained footage of her life and death for the HBO documentary. In late February 2014, the documentary "Secrets of the Vatican "directed by Thomas was aired on PBS as part of the "Frontline "series. Antony Thomas Antony Thomas (born 26 July 1940) is an English documentary filmmaker, director and author who has made films for, among others, Channel 4, the BBC and HBO. Thomas was born in India. When he