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Sunday, 03 July 2005 |
 Desperate to cover up Ahmadinejad’s role in hostage taking, Tehran names three dead persons in embassy picture
Khatami’s deputy, advisor confirm Ahmadinejad’s role in embassy takeover
Revelations about the role of the mullahs’ new president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad in the occupation of the United States embassy and holding
U.S. diplomats hostage in 1979 has greatly alarmed and confused the
clerical regime, prompting it to make contradictory remarks.
Ninety-six hours after the publication of photos of a hostage-taker,
Saeed Hajjarian, among the founders of the mullahs’ Ministry of
Intelligence and Security (MOIS), resorted to a completely fabricated
tale. He told the Associated Press on Saturday that the man in the
picture was not Ahmadinejad.
“This man is Taqi Mohammadi, a militant who later turned into a
dissident and committed suicide in jail. Mohammadi was arrested on
charges of involvement in the 1981 bombing in Tehran that killed the
country's president and prime minister,” he said.
A day before, Sharq daily wrote that the man was Jafar Zaker “who was
killed during the Iran-Iraq war.” The same paper also wrote that the
other person in the picture was named Ranjbaran who “was later executed
for his links to an extremist opposition group.”
Hajjarian is the very henchman about whose services to the regime the
state-controlled daily had the following to say on April 3, 2000, “In
just one night in his neighborhood, he and his fellows killed dozens of
members of groups who had taken up arms against the Islamic Republic of
Iran in the early 1980s. The next afternoon, they executed the rest of
them according to judicial rulings.”
While the main perpetrators of the hostage taking are alive and know
all the hostage-takers, after a four-day delay, the clerical regime has
presented the names of three dead persons as the one in the embassy
picture. This is a threadbare tactic, whereby the mullahs routinely
introduce those responsible for their atrocities as persons who were
either “killed in the war fronts” or “executed in prison” or “committed
suicide in detention” in order to stonewall further investigation or
follow up and escape international implications of their crimes.
At the same time, Mohammad Khatami’s deputy and the hostage-takers’
spokeswoman, Massoumeh Ebtekar, and Khatami’s advisor Mohammad-Ali
Abtahi emphasized yesterday that Ahmadinejad did not have a principal
role in hostage taking and was not among the main perpetrators,
confirming that he did take part in the embassy takeover.
Before the sham presidential elections, the National Council of
Resistance of Iran issued several statements in which it exposed
Ahmadinejad’s role in the hostage taking. In a statement on June 16,
the NCRI wrote that he had been among those who planned the embassy
takeover.
Six former hostages emphasized that Ahmadinejad repeatedly interrogated
them. BBC’s correspondent also said he had interviewed Ahmadinejad as
one of the hostage-takers. These leave no doubt about the definitive
role of the mullahs’ president in the hostage taking.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 3, 2005 |
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