In 1979-1981, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the “student revolutionary” guards who stood over the US Embassy staff that was overrun and taken captive for 444 days, while Jimmy Carter dithered and acquiesed. Not only was Ahmadinejad one of the guards who trained weapons on the embassy staff, he openly discussed means of torture that should be applied within hearing of these same captives. Apparently he did not realize that many of these captives were sufficiently fluent in Farsi to understand him perfectly.
Did he use an Iranian plane to get to NYC ?