Tehran is burning and the death of Neda: The Iranian Protest

I just found out that this woman's name was Neda. the first thing that caught me off guard was the fact that she wasn't wearing a hajib. Then there was the look in her eye the disappointed and reproachful as if she was sickened by the person holding the camera or whoever shot her or me for watching her die. Thanks to the crackdown on the media in Iran I'm just as clueless as the people a the 24 hour news stations when it comes to finding out how real this video is. If this woman really died, if the video was even shot in Iran these are the questions I can never hope to answer on my own. The mainstream media has become so reliant on the personal media that they might as well start writing checks to Google Twitter and Facebook. Its industry suicide because the safe little visual fictions of countries like Iran, countries with a contrary political and social set of anxieties as wasted third world shotting ranges where all the kids are wearing battered flip-flops with Mr. T and Thundercat t-shirts. In these videos Tehran looks like any European city on hot day like Los Angeles during the summer, and the people in the streets don't look like the desperate antisemitic hardliners we want to ignore. As presumptive president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the supreme Iranian leader the Ayatollah fade from the public eye and into the televised characters to the western world the Democratic Left and the Republican Right have some manipulated the violence on the street into their own conflict. The dead number somewhere around 160 and the media for its part have reduced the bloodshed to its most pity denominator Republicans circle jerking themselves into a self-righteous lather complaining that Obama hasn't been as obnoxious and belligerent enough to protect American interest while the Democratic party avoids them and tries to remind them in the most passive aggressive liberal way that "hey don't we have sit to do here after your guy fist fucked the economy and the health care system into a smoldering heap?" Can Western and particularly American intervention actually help the people on the streets of Tehran? Former president Rafsanjani's daughter Faezeh Hashemi was a vocal opponent of the election result has been arrested as well as several other politically prominent Iranians. Some Iranians think American involvement undermines the platform Mir-Hossein Mousavi ran as well as the validity of the protest against the results of the election. Allowing that then how are these youtube post for?