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July 6, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/49532.htm

The Prez and the Hit Squad

(New York Post) Amir Taheri - The winner in Iran's recent presidential election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, makes no secret that he is a professional revolutionary, having spent all his adult years in the service of the Khomeinist movement. But it is almost certain that he was not directly involved in the occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979-80. Ahmadinejad's presence at the killing of three Kurdish dissident leaders in Vienna on July 13, 1989, however, is an established fact. He was wounded in the shoot-out and spent a day in a Vienna hospital before being whisked out of Austria with a diplomatic passport.

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