Saturday, July 02, 2005

Hajarian recognizes the guy in the photo

Yahoo News:
A top former secret agent Saeed Hajjarian points to a copy of a photograph which shows a U.S. hostage and an Iranian during the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, in his office on Saturday, July 2, 2005. Hajjarian said Saturday a hostage taker alleged to be Iran's ultraconservative president-elect was a militant-turned dissident who later committed suicide in jail. READ MORE

'This man is Taqi Mohammadi, a militant who later turned into a dissident and committed suicide in jail,' Saeed Hajjarian, a top adviser to outgoing President Mohammad Khatami told The Associated Press, Saturday, pointing to the photo of a man alleged to be Ahmadinejad.
Update: for more on Saeed Hajjarian, read, The Origins of Iran's Reformist Elite.