Iranian participants in the 1979 Hostage Crisis are denying Ahmadinejad played any role in the siege and the subsequent 444 day hostage ordeal. As reported here yesterday, a picture that is believed to be of Ahmadinejad walking an American hostage has been released to the press.

As Robert Spencer says, “If it ain’t Ahmadinejad, it’s his twin brother.”

What I find most striking about this denial is that Ahmadinejad was a leader in the same student movement that took the hostages, yet now we are to believe he had nothing to do with it. Was he the sole conscientious objector? That’s very doubtful since he has publically said he wants to revive the Islamic Revolution, the same revolution which climaxed with the hostage taking.