Ahmadinejad had no role in US Embassy siege: Hostage-takers
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, July 1, IRNA
Iran-US-Ahmadinejad
The three leading Iranian hostage-takers here Friday vehemently denied the reports on President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's role in the 1979 US Embassy siege.
Abbas Abdi, Mohsen Mirdamadi, and Hamid Reza Jalaeipour, the leaders of "Students Following the Path of Imam" taking the embassy, said the reports on Ahmadinejad's involvement were not true.
Some US Embassy officials taken hostage after the victory of the Islamic Revolution have claimed Ahmadinejad was one of their captors and interrogators, while the trio said the president-elect did not accompany the hostage-takers even for one minute.
Abdolhossein Rouholamini, also a hostage-taker, said the hostage-takers were the students from Tehran University, Sharif University of Technology, Polytechnic (Amir Kabir) University, and National (Shahid Beheshti) University and no student from University of Science and Technology was among the hostage-takers.
Ahmadinejad was studying at the University of Science and Technology at that time.
Tehran mayor Ahmadinejad swept to a landslide victory in Iran's 9th presidential election last Saturday.
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