Pittsburgh Iran Vigil: Lighting 100 Candles Against the Darkness

centera href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jZCH_2E4fIhvVvTFNvREd5BaCCJHw1goTe1bCHteXyAfE6wDQwro0qd84Zv3vGz0sSzPv6ne4ardSGYHocb7v4HwV7otZPRYtBzThxnur5pN0x5gU-Ysakwt_dl9W7NyaSn0p8dFRdE/s1600-h/iran-vigil-pgh-1.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 339px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350753578793921522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jZCH_2E4fIhvVvTFNvREd5BaCCJHw1goTe1bCHteXyAfE6wDQwro0qd84Zv3vGz0sSzPv6ne4ardSGYHocb7v4HwV7otZPRYtBzThxnur5pN0x5gU-Ysakwt_dl9W7NyaSn0p8dFRdE/s400/iran-vigil-pgh-1.jpg" //a/centerbr /Approximately 100 gathered Tuesday evening in Market Square to show support for the democratic movement now underway in Iran and to honor those who have lost their lives in this struggle.br /br /The crowd was a mix of old and young; Persian and non Persian. Many greeted each other with "salam"as the vigil grew.br /br /A poem was read in honor of Neda Agha Soltan, the 26-year old woman shot in the heart at a protest in Iran, who has become the a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09174/979208-153.stm"strongface of the movement/strong/a when her death was broadcast on a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfrfEtW2aT4"strongemYouTube/em/strong/a.br /br /A woman who said she had lived through the 1979 revolution in Iran stood up and spoke. She said that she had been waiting a long time to see a new generation of Iranians seek change. She then led many in the crowd in singing the Iranian anthem. I heard someone behind me comment that it was the old anthem -- the one that was sung "before the monsters took over."br /br /Another vigil/rally is planned for Sunday. Details to be announced.br /br /centera href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgga6IsOI_se56M7kNxhoK85Sp-MsIY1GL0iaZBzJhbxTAch7ErT4p58Z9wfM5Kc1NNu7ULT7bURW2-GdoQss3iVsDsitkwRiloWU2Pccu_wEiX9Cf6cUKpdWraW675cugAgiXW5i6F-qs/s1600-h/iran-vigil-pgh-8.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350754672892153602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgga6IsOI_se56M7kNxhoK85Sp-MsIY1GL0iaZBzJhbxTAch7ErT4p58Z9wfM5Kc1NNu7ULT7bURW2-GdoQss3iVsDsitkwRiloWU2Pccu_wEiX9Cf6cUKpdWraW675cugAgiXW5i6F-qs/s400/iran-vigil-pgh-8.jpg" //abr /br /a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tH_C43aAH6vmx-4KEvzeuUyn6UxnWg26IIJ1KuecFR2YMlYzkMr1ckO1qZy3weDaZL3iiKnamGh5q4kfyRf383AsBgRH2TUcZ3qLTvzlVy3OxfBa4uHHcNCaajNJKF9c8PRWm3SlZMI/s1600-h/iran-vigil-pgh-5.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 357px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350754307316986210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tH_C43aAH6vmx-4KEvzeuUyn6UxnWg26IIJ1KuecFR2YMlYzkMr1ckO1qZy3weDaZL3iiKnamGh5q4kfyRf383AsBgRH2TUcZ3qLTvzlVy3OxfBa4uHHcNCaajNJKF9c8PRWm3SlZMI/s400/iran-vigil-pgh-5.jpg" //abr /br /a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZd0FSreasAKuOMBtQCvJVYCJLRpfhTDNXYY4xmRJRY1EfzXvl1lIutGX7uxUujdhF8YXaFqI2oCLNHI2rkuJFaji2CMLaWPLJIWjjxYhsnMwMW1-nPzU-_W28XG-3OvDWq623ATLzM8/s1600-h/iran-vigil-pgh-7.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 285px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350754309025985074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZd0FSreasAKuOMBtQCvJVYCJLRpfhTDNXYY4xmRJRY1EfzXvl1lIutGX7uxUujdhF8YXaFqI2oCLNHI2rkuJFaji2CMLaWPLJIWjjxYhsnMwMW1-nPzU-_W28XG-3OvDWq623ATLzM8/s400/iran-vigil-pgh-7.jpg" //abr /br /a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmhAjkold_dhlOtx1YuHjjKrcgNRRHYLlzXFUCvoSrkHBocDgCTYZepptrsY5rJ_QDLBQFdY40rMeast-gQ0upcKaF8nj-MxuOE_kSewnhKMNaJHaBoSzRd1y5X2he01raaI2HV-J-CM/s1600-h/iran-vigil-pgh-9.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 389px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350754301848764370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmhAjkold_dhlOtx1YuHjjKrcgNRRHYLlzXFUCvoSrkHBocDgCTYZepptrsY5rJ_QDLBQFdY40rMeast-gQ0upcKaF8nj-MxuOE_kSewnhKMNaJHaBoSzRd1y5X2he01raaI2HV-J-CM/s400/iran-vigil-pgh-9.jpg" //abr /br /a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDIHGHOdgJ9e5f1j9384tl6oD52luzh7aa6LItSECrGYVqVZPAmhPX-cQJ6aJp3VBv7VaSInxkwj4e8EDYYZS4Kxvo71Y5FCVU6QN8cmxwIw60DmjWp27G_8FEZ6hoKa2mK6UTmdEz3Q/s1600-h/iran-vigil-pgh-4.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350754299518651026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDIHGHOdgJ9e5f1j9384tl6oD52luzh7aa6LItSECrGYVqVZPAmhPX-cQJ6aJp3VBv7VaSInxkwj4e8EDYYZS4Kxvo71Y5FCVU6QN8cmxwIw60DmjWp27G_8FEZ6hoKa2mK6UTmdEz3Q/s400/iran-vigil-pgh-4.jpg" //abr /br /a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJwEucCCh9R6KP9699krPu6MBM5FY1EHE8aMkFyJ8LJXuR7ylJ5554K8tgB6BCbqc1JF8s0S1lxw98j40ZUCgWkZ1NHYzsqt4lACLiFPK2KZxYG4jkAe-OyH7TQhkwZlwpzmCk3GOWFw/s1600-h/iran-vigil-pgh-3.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 335px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350754294374258018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJwEucCCh9R6KP9699krPu6MBM5FY1EHE8aMkFyJ8LJXuR7ylJ5554K8tgB6BCbqc1JF8s0S1lxw98j40ZUCgWkZ1NHYzsqt4lACLiFPK2KZxYG4jkAe-OyH7TQhkwZlwpzmCk3GOWFw/s400/iran-vigil-pgh-3.jpg" //a/centerbr /(Kudos to strongemWPXI/em/strong for covering the event on the 11:00 news broadcast.)br /span style="color:#ffffff;".br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8213262-1106673411867257761?l=2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com'//div

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