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Oh Sh!t: Iranian President Elect Ex-Hostage Taker? | 17 comments (17 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: YES! Definitely - It's Him ... (none / 1)

Um, no.

I came back to this diary this morning because this story made the front page of the local paper, The News & Advance with the headline "U.S. examining claim that Iran's new leader was ex-hostage taker." The article featured blather from WH officials saying the situation required investigation. But it also featured two photographs: one of Ahmadinejad and the unnamed hostage-taker, side by side. You don't have to be a retired CIA photo expert (see Oui's post below) to see these are two distinctly different men. Different eyes, eyebrows, nose and cheekbones. There are similarities, of course, they are both Arabic-looking.

So, I'm wondering if any other local readers -- with eyes to see -- are pondering, as I am, why the WH feels this requires additional investigation and publicity.

So, dear friends, I conclude this is propaganda, pure and simple. What it does is remind the public of the hostage crisis with a subtle nudge, "Remember the Iranians. They hate us. We hate them. Remember we still haven't gotten even with them for taking our hostages."

What's that? Do you hear a drum beat? There are elections coming in '06 and Republicans need another war to bolster their national security creds...

by sjct on Fri Jul 1st, 2005 at 08:19:41 AM EST
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Ex-Iranian Agent: Photo Not Ahmadinejad (none / 0)

"This man is Taqi Mohammadi, a militant who later turned into a dissident and committed suicide in jail," he said, pointing to the 1979 photo. Mohammadi was arrested on charges of involvement in the 1981 bombing in Tehran that killed the country's president and prime minister.

Saeed Hajjarian, a top adviser to outgoing President Mohammad Khatami, also denied an Austrian newspaper report and claims by Iranian dissidents that Ahmadinejad had a role in the 1989 slaying of an Iranian opposition Kurdish leader and two associates in Vienna.

Hajjarian, considered the brains behind Khatami's democratic reforms program, is a former top official in the Intelligence Ministry, or the secret service. Both supporters and opponents describe him as the "walking memory" of Iran's recent history because of his access to classified information and secrets within Iran's ruling Islamic establishment.

Hajjarian is one of many reformers who are at loggerheads with the hard-line Ahmadinejad. He was shot by a hard-line vigilante in 2000 and is paralyzed and cannot speak fluently.

Saeed Hajjarian

[...]
Exiled Iranian dissident Alireza Jafarzadeh, who runs Strategic Policy Consulting, a Washington-based think tank focusing on Iran and Iraq, said Ahmadinejad was a Revolutionary Guard commander who supplied the weapons used to kill the three on July 13, 1989 in Vienna. Jafarzadeh said his assessment was based on Iranian government sources "who have provided accurate information in the past."

Jafarzadeh is a former U.S. representative for the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The council is the political arm of the Mujahedeen Khalq, a group that Washington and the European Union list as a terrorist organization.

Alireza Jafarzadeh seems to be the Iran version of Achmed Chalabi? Does indeed look like an orchestrated attack of smears on Iran, part of preparation for war propaganda! It stinks - the Ugly American.

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by Oui on Sun Jul 3rd, 2005 at 02:32:46 AM EST
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