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Iran leader linked to 1979 hostage crisis

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Bad Consolidation Credit Debt WASHINGTON - At least four Americans held hostage in the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran said on Thursday they recognized Iran's president-elect as one of the ringleaders from the crisis, a claim denied in Tehran.

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Bad Company Credit Repair In interviews with U.S. television networks, retired Navy Capt. Donald Sharer and Bill Daugherty, said they were convinced Iran's ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of their Iranian captors.

"The President who cared" details his anguish over the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph against all odds at Camp David, his secret communications with China's Deng Xiaoping, and his dramatic and revealing encounters with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and other world leaders. Mr.

Bad Card Credit Credit "He wasn't a very nice fellow at the time. He called us pigs and dogs. He's very hard-line, he's a guy we are not going to get along with," said Sharer in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" show.

The photo was sent to Iran Focus by activists inside Iran. During the festival, known as 'chaharshanbeh souri' literally, people jump over bonfires to "drive away evil". Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, however, Iran's theocratic leaders have made strenuous efforts to stamp out the festivities, but to no avail. In recent years, there have been extensive clashes between festive crowds and the security forces deployed to prevent street celebrations.

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Najjar said that the Ministry of Defence supported the activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Iran has had a dual system of armed forces since 1979, with the regular armed forces assigned to guard the country's borders and the IRGC, which are solely answerable to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, taking care of internal security, often acting as a secret police and an intelligence agency.

Bad Credit Loan Mortgage "When your country is being humiliated and being embarrassed, the individuals that do that really stick in your mind. You don't forget people who do things like that to you and your family and your country," said Daugherty.

Auto Bad Credit Loan In Iran, two leading figures in the seizure of the U.S. Embassy denied Ahmadinejad took part in the hostage drama which led Washington to break ties with Tehran.

Bad Credit Mortgage Refinance "Ahmadinejad was not among those who occupied the American Embassy after the revolution," said Abbas Abdi, who helped to orchestrate the raid on the embassy and the seizure of its staff after the Islamic revolution.

Bad Credit Refinance Mohsen Mirdamadi, another ringleader of the hostage-taking drama in Tehran, rejected the reports.

Bad Credit Mortgage Second "I deny such reports. Ahmadinejad was not a member of the radical students' group who seized the embassy," said Mirdamadi, a former lawmaker.

Bad Credit Loan Student The young militants involved in the embassy takeover have followed different career paths in the past 25 years. Some were appointed to government jobs or elected to parliament. Some turned into radical reformers and challenged the ruling Shi'ite clerics, and a number of them, including Abdi, have spent several years in prison.

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Bad Credit Financing Fifty-two Americans were held for 444 days. Washington severed ties with Tehran in 1980 and has branded Iran as part of an "axis of evil" for allegedly pursuing nuclear arms and sponsoring terrorism. Iran denies the charges.

Bad Credit Home Loan Mortgage Asked to comment on denials from Iran, Sharer told NBC's "Today" show he remembered the new president as one of the "cruel" ringleaders.

Bad Credit Loan People "All I can say is I remember the fellow being very cruel-like, stern, a very narrow beady-eyed character. I can't comment on what they are saying politically now. They are probably trying to cover their tracks and make the rest of the world think he was not involved," said Sharer.

Bad Card Credit Credit People Another ex-hostage, retired Army Col. Charles Scott, 73, told The Washington Times the president-elect was one of two or three top leaders involved in the hostage crisis.

Bad Credit Guaranteed Loan "As soon as I saw his picture in the paper, I knew that was the bastard," said Scott, of Jonesboro, Georgia. "The new president of Iran is a terrorist."

Bad Credit Refinancing Kevin Hermening of Mosinee, Wisconsin, a 20-year-old Marine security guard when the embassy was stormed, told the paper he had contact with Ahmadinejad right after the takeover.

Bad Credit Equity Home Loan "He was involved in interrogating me the day we were taken captive," Hermening was quoted as saying. He said interrogators sought the combinations for "safes and other things that were locked."

Bad Credit Loan Payday Ahmadinejad, who won Iran's presidential election by a landslide last week, was a 23-year-old university student at the time of the takeover in November 1979 and was a founding member of the radical student group that organized the storming of the U.S. Embassy compound, the Times said.

Bad Credit Repair (Additional reporting by Joanne Allen in Washington and Parisa Hafezi in Tehran)

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