Hajar Rostami-Motlagh, Nada’s mother, told Rooz Online the president’s words were a ploy to distract the public, such as he has used in the past.
“No one believes what he says,” the mother stated.
In an interview with The New York Times last week, Ahmadi-nejad was asked about Neda’s death and said, “We have proof that the scene was staged and she was killed later.”
However, just a few sentences later, he offered to investigate the killing.
Next he said the video of Neda allegedly being shot was “almost a photocopy” of an incident earlier in a Latin American country that he did not name. He said the organizers recruit a person saying that person will be in a short movie, then “they take them to some place and they kill them.”
Neda’s mother said, “I find this gentleman’s remarks comical. The people are fully aware of who killed Neda. The first year he was in New York, he held up a picture of an Egyptian woman and, when they asked him about Neda, he spoke of the Egyptian woman instead.
“To add insult to injury, last year he claimed that everyone is free and this year he has continued with these ludicrous comments. Every year he goes to the US and says something…. How should we respond to these comments? Should we remind him that as the head of a government he should have a conscience? Should we ask him how he can give himself the right to claim that everything has been fabricated? Even if we did, it would be to no avail.”
Citing the videotape that captured the last moments of her daughter’s life, Neda’s mother said: “What matters is that the people of Iran and the world at large are aware of the truth and what really occurred.
“They [the Iranian government] can continue to say what ever they want to. It is the people’s support that is of importance to me; a nation that has never left us alone and continues to stand with us after two years and three months. I will always be grateful to the kindness of our people. After two years our people continue to visit us, giving us hope and strength.
“Ahmadi-nejad can continue to say whatever he wishes. No one believes what he says,” Neda’s mother said.