America Held Hostage-Then and Now
According to the Washington Times, the new President of Iran has been identified by former hostages as one of the ``students`` who seized the American Embassy and imprisoned our citizens back during the Carter administration.
If true, this means that the same thugs who held us hostage then are, through their developement of nuclear weapons and the exporting of Jihad to Iraq, holding us hostage again. Carterism has carried the day, and Jimmy can be proud of his success!
Americans held in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Iran said yesterday they clearly recall Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad playing a central role in the takeover, interrogating captives and demanding harsher treatment for the hostages.
"As soon as I saw his picture in the paper, I knew that was the bastard," said retired Army Col. Charles Scott, 73, a former hostage who lives in Jonesboro, Ga.
"He was one of the top two or three leaders," Col. Scott said in a telephone interview. "The new president of Iran is a terrorist."
The new president's hard-line political views and his background as a student radical in the Iranian Revolution are well known.
But recollections of Mr. Ahmadinejad's direct and personal role in the embassy drama promises to complicate the already rocky relations between Iran's new president and the Bush administration.
Donald Sharer, a retired Navy captain who was for a time a cellmate of Col. Scott at the Evin prison in northern Tehran, remembered Mr. Ahmadinejad as "a hard-liner, a cruel individual."
"I know he was an interrogator," said Capt. Sharer, now 64 and living in Bedford, Iowa. He said he was personally questioned by Mr. Ahmadinejad on one occasion but does not recall the subject of the interrogation.
Col. Scott recalled an incident when Mr. Ahmadinejad berated a friendly Iranian guard who had allowed the two Americans to visit another U.S. hostage in a neighboring cell. Col. Scott, who understands Farsi, said Mr. Ahmadinejad told the guard, "You shouldn't let these pigs out of their cells."
Col. Scott said he responded by making a rude gesture to Mr. Ahmadinejad.
The man about to become Iran's sixth president since the revolution became "red-faced" and stormed out of the cell.
U.S. officials have condemned the voting procedures that led to Mr. Ahmadinejad's upset in a runoff win over moderate cleric Hashemi Rafsanjani on June 25.
Iran's hard-line Islamic rulers, who have long and close ties to the incoming president, barred all but a handful of the 1,000 candidates who sought to run in the election.
If true, this means that the same thugs who held us hostage then are, through their developement of nuclear weapons and the exporting of Jihad to Iraq, holding us hostage again. Carterism has carried the day, and Jimmy can be proud of his success!
Americans held in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Iran said yesterday they clearly recall Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad playing a central role in the takeover, interrogating captives and demanding harsher treatment for the hostages.
"As soon as I saw his picture in the paper, I knew that was the bastard," said retired Army Col. Charles Scott, 73, a former hostage who lives in Jonesboro, Ga.
"He was one of the top two or three leaders," Col. Scott said in a telephone interview. "The new president of Iran is a terrorist."
The new president's hard-line political views and his background as a student radical in the Iranian Revolution are well known.
But recollections of Mr. Ahmadinejad's direct and personal role in the embassy drama promises to complicate the already rocky relations between Iran's new president and the Bush administration.
Donald Sharer, a retired Navy captain who was for a time a cellmate of Col. Scott at the Evin prison in northern Tehran, remembered Mr. Ahmadinejad as "a hard-liner, a cruel individual."
"I know he was an interrogator," said Capt. Sharer, now 64 and living in Bedford, Iowa. He said he was personally questioned by Mr. Ahmadinejad on one occasion but does not recall the subject of the interrogation.
Col. Scott recalled an incident when Mr. Ahmadinejad berated a friendly Iranian guard who had allowed the two Americans to visit another U.S. hostage in a neighboring cell. Col. Scott, who understands Farsi, said Mr. Ahmadinejad told the guard, "You shouldn't let these pigs out of their cells."
Col. Scott said he responded by making a rude gesture to Mr. Ahmadinejad.
The man about to become Iran's sixth president since the revolution became "red-faced" and stormed out of the cell.
U.S. officials have condemned the voting procedures that led to Mr. Ahmadinejad's upset in a runoff win over moderate cleric Hashemi Rafsanjani on June 25.
Iran's hard-line Islamic rulers, who have long and close ties to the incoming president, barred all but a handful of the 1,000 candidates who sought to run in the election.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 1:26 PM
4 Comments:
Great site! We need to exchange links.
The latest twist on the Iranian elections makes me want to puke.
Even here in the D.C. area, the bastion of liberalism, the prevailing public opinion is that Iran's new prez is one of the psycho fanatics involved in the 1979 hostage crisis. Today, one of the local news channels put up "then" and "now" photos, and even morons had to admit that we're looking at a terrorist as president of a country which is developing nukes.
Of course, he denies that he's "the guy," and he also denies that he'll develop nukes for military purposes. Pardon my skepticism--I don't believe him!
"Hardline" is the media codeword for psychotic megalomaniac. This dangerous man cannot wait to take revenge on the West because he believes that Iran's problems stem from "Westoxification."
The farce of an election in Iran does not bode well for democracy in the Middle East.
Did we really think they'd let anyone other than an anti-American terrorist lead their country? Hardly surprising. SUCKS, mind you, but hardly surprising.
These elections in Iran were a complete sham. This guy is a terrorist of the first order. I don't know if you ever have a chance to listen to the John Bachelor radio show, but it's one of the smartest on radio. His mother was a Persian so he is powerfully involved in the politics of this region. He's extremely upset by this new president -- he says that he is definitely a terrorist, one who takes pride in being the one to deliver the coup de grace shot to the head to many prisoners in his custody. Furthermore, Bachelor and all the Iranian experts he calls on to comment all lament that the Bush administration at this point, has ZERO Iran policy, when they should be spending millions supporting pro-democracy forces in the way that Reagan financed the Solidarity movement in Poland all those years ago. This is troubling news, if true, and blustering over this choice now is hardly a policy. Iran is a big trouble spot and a big danger, now more than ever -- excellent post, as usual!!
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