Holding hostages and influencing people

Speculation over whether the newly "elected" Iranian president might be the same Iranian student hostage taker (photographed repeatedly during the 444 day seige) made it into yesterday's and today's Philadelphia Inquirer, and is raging its way through the blogosphere. (See InstaPundit, Gateway Pundit, Little Green Footballs, Rusty Shackleford, Captain Ed for starters.)

The evidence presented by Gateway Pundit looks damningly impressive to me.

Former OSU officials involved in the takeover of the U.S. embassy said Ahmadinejad was in charge of security during the occupation, a key role that put him in direct contact with the nascent security organizations of the clerical regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, which he later joined.

Defectors from the clerical regime’s security forces have revealed that Ahmadinejad led the firing squads that carried out many of the executions. He personally fired coup de grace shots at the heads of prisoners after their execution and became known as “Tir Khalas Zan” (literally, the Terminator).

Surely whoever this man was, the government must know where he is now.

Ahmadinejad, for his part, denies being the same man, although he admits he would have liked to have been there. (Another student is quoted as saying Ahmadinejad played no role, although he "had wanted to." So what stopped him?)

There is a very simple solution. Iran being a totalitarian-style government which keeps track of people, considering that the "student leader" is a hero (as well as former hostage-taker security chief), why don't they simply produce the real guy?

That could clear the whole thing up, although either way, Ahmadinejad remains a committed, nuke-seeking enemy of the United States.

He's more dangerous now than in 1979.

posted by Eric on 07.01.05 at 08:44 AM





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I agree with those who view Ahmadinejad as an ultra-conservative who will (if anything) accelerate Iran's nuclear ambitions. For a slightly different "analysis" read yesterday's New York Times editorial, which treats Ahmadinejad's victory as a simple electoral preference by Iran's voters:

"Mr. Rafsanjani lost because he was too closely associated with the recent economic failures and political inertia. Mr. Ahmadinejad, in contrast, offered a populist economic platform that implicitly challenged the cronyism and corruption of more than a quarter-century of clerical rule. We wish him luck."

dane   ·  July 1, 2005 11:06 AM

I cannot fathom why we haven't bombed Iran yet.

John   ·  July 1, 2005 11:48 AM

John:

Exactly what I was thinking.



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