Who is Ahmadinejad?

Who is Ahmadinejad?


	The recent sham presidential elections in Iran propelled an obscure political figure, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, into Iran's political scene at a very crucial juncture when Iranians are daily challenging the theocratic regime and the world is concerned with Iran’s nuclear drive for nuclear weapons and meddling in Iraq. But who is Ahmadinejad? Born in 1956, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined a generation of firebrand Islamic fundamentalists dedicated to the cause of an Islamic world revolution before the 1979 revolution in Iran. After the fall of Shah Ahmadinejad became one of the leaders of the ultra-conservative Islamic fundamentalists and founded the Islamic Students Association in college. The Islamic Students Associations played a central role in the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran. Ahmadinejad was a member of the central council of this student body and was regularly received by Khomeini along with other council members. There volumes of reports and testimonials by many former American hostages identifying Ahmadinejad as one of their captors and interrogators. One even described him as more nasty ones. During the crackdown on universities in 1980, which Khomeini called the "Islamic Cultural Revolution", Ahmadinejad's student body played a critical role in purging dissident lecturers and students many of whom were arrested and later executed. Universities remained closed for three years and Ahmadinejad joined the Revolutionary Guards where he worked in its "Internal Security" department dealing with political dissidents. He soon earned notoriety as a ruthless interrogator and torturer. Ahmadinejad worked for some time as an executioner in the notorious Evin Prison, where thousands of political prisoners were executed in the bloody purges of the 1980's. In 2003, Ahmadinejad became the Meyer of Tehran and began using his position to build up a strong network of radical Islamic fundamentalists who want to revive the ideals and policies of Ayatollah Khomeini. Beyond the shallow facade of a "populist" figure, no one should doubt that the mullahs' Islamic Republic under its new President will move with greater speed and determination for more human rights abuses, continuing sponsorship of terrorism, and the drive to obtain nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad's wicked record fully embodies the regime of terror and tyranny he represent: a criminal, terrorist regime despised by Iranians and the world. Ahmadinejad emboldened by the world's apparent silence, is planning to come to the New York City to attend a UN General Assembly meeting in mid-September. We should join together to protest his trip and remind him that as far the free world is concerned he is a fundamentalist terrorist, hostage-taker, assassin and executioner .

About Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is is also a former hostage-taker, executioner of dissidents, and mastermind behind many assassinations abroad.. According to former hostages, Chuck Scott, David Roeder, William J. Daugherty, and Don A. Sharer, he is recognized as one of the "leaders" who raided the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and lead "interrogator" during the 444 days of hostage crisis.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a former commander of Iran's ideological army, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), assumed office early August following a rigged election in June 2005. Ahmadinejad does not represent the people of Iran.

Backed by Iran's hard-line Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards, this obscure radical with a wicked past as a hostage-taker, a terrorist, an assassin, and an interrogator has been placed in the office of presidency.

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A loyal servant of criminal mullahs

Iran's new President Mahmood Ahmadinejad kisses the hand of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a ceremony to formally install the ultra-conservative former revolutionary guard as successor to outgoing president Mohamad Khatami in Tehran. Ahmadinejad took office as the country's hardline regime said it hoped to resume some nuclear activities despite the risk of triggering an international crisis.(AFP/Atta Kenare)

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