ABSTRACT
This chapter follows instances of 'adding parts' to a global protest assemblage after the killing of Neda Agda Soltan in Teheran in 2009. It analyses at a global level how social actors have used Neda as a vulnerable body to articulate protests against the regime in Iran and thus become parts of and responsible for building the assemblage. The chapter also focuses the political potential of the victimised-vulnerable body as a soft power, and capable of assembling or creating assemblages. The long-term effects of Neda's mediated vulnerability are still open to debate as Neda's importance for any positive change in Iran is impossible to determine accurately. The post-election protest did not create a political event in Iran that radically changed the system and opened up a new future. But it contributed to a regional process that culminated in historical riots in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
