Five former hostages from the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1979 have identified the new Iranian President as one of the hostage-takers. This is being probed by the U.S. government and others. There is much uncertainty as to whether or not this is accurate.
His Vice-President was definitely involved in the seizure and interrogation of the hostages and has said that she would have killed the hostages if she had been "provoked."
The new Iranian President has also been linked to the killing of Iranian Kurdish leaders in Vienna in 1989. Austrian authorities are said to have compelling evidence to support this claim.
People are asking how someone like this could become the President of a nation.
Consider: they had elections in Iran a few weeks ago, but they were as far away from being democratic elections as is possible. A council of Islamic leaders filtered out who could run.
Out of a thousand candidates, only three or four made the final cuts. They cut out all the women who were running; they cut out reformers and pro-Western candidates and left the candidates who were hard-liners or had connections with previous governments in the running.
In the United States, we have primary elections to filter out who will end up running in the general election; they have a group of old farts who arbitrarily decide who gets to run and takes the decision away from the voters. They then tell the people how to vote. Free elections indeed.
The clerics chose the most rabid of the candidates to run. They care more that this guy was a commander in the Revolutionary Guard and don't care about crimes that he may have committed to further the cause of THEIR revolution.
So is it any surprise that the Iranians have elected someone who is anti-Western and has the blood of others on his hands? After all, he's the candidate of the clerics and they know better than the Iranian people do.
What a boatload of crap!
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