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Iran refuses to answer queries on
President's past
7.11.2005
Published Nov.4 |
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London, - The United States said on Thursday
that Iran had refused to answer queries on the
suspected role of its hard-line President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy
in Tehran.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that
there remained “unanswered questions” regarding the
incident and that the only way to completely resolve
them was to have “definitive statements” from the
Iranian president and government.
Neither of them, he said, had answered the
outstanding queries.
In July, the White House said that Ahmadinejad was a
leader of the student movement that organised the
takeover of the U.S. embassy on November 4, 1979.
"Mr. Ahmadinejad was a leader of the student
movement that organised the attack on the embassy
and the taking of American hostages”, a White House
spokesman said. “However, we are still investigating
whether or not he was explicitly one of the
hostage-takers”. |
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Kurdish Leader Dr.Abdul-Rahman Qasimlo 1989 ┼
Photo: Kurd Net Archive
Iran's terrorist president Ahmadinejad |
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Several Americans who were held during the
444-day-long hostage crisis have said they
recognised Ahmadinejad as a ringleader.
“We in no way want to discount the recollections of
those who say that he was involved in some fashion
in the questioning and the holding of the hostages”,
McCormack said, adding that the “ball is in the
Iranians' court” in order to answer these unresolved
questions.
“Certainly we have not forgotten the events of that
date and the subsequent 444 days. The act of taking
that embassy was a criminal act”, the State
Department’s spokesman said.
“And certainly we think that it is incumbent upon
President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Government to
answer these unanswered questions”.
In addition to his role in the 1979 hostage crisis,
Ahmadinejad has also been implicated in the
assassination of a Kurdish dissident "Dr.Qasimlo" in
Vienna in 1989. He is believed to have been in the
hit squad that coordinated and carried out the
attack.
According to reliable accounts revealed by Iran
Focus, Ahmadinejad has been involved in other
terrorist operations carried out by the Iranian
regime abroad and led firing squads that executed
hundreds of political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin
Prison in the 1980s.
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