President-Elect Denies Role in Hostage Crisis
From Times Wire Reports
Iran’s ultraconservative president-elect dismissed allegations of his involvement in the 1979 hostage-taking at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
“The dissemination of baseless information by Western countries despite enjoying advanced intelligence gathering capabilities is questionable,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying.
Several Americans have maintained that Ahmadinejad was among their captors, though organizers of the embassy takeover have said he was not.
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