There are two issues :
1)Ahmadinejad, without question, DID participate in the hostage crisis. That's a fact.
2) Is that him in the photo? I don't know. There are differences. But it really doesn't matter who the man in the photo is.
You're right, I'm sure, but I think we need to make it clear that the photo comparison isn't anywhere near proof that they're the same guy.
Iran's new president declares worldwide 'Islamic revolution'
World Tribune ^ | Thursday, June 30, 2005 | SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Posted on 06/30/2005 10:30:49 PM PDT by truth_seeker
Iran's president-elect has proclaimed an Islamic revolution of global proportions.
Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election coincided with what he termed a new Islamic revolution.
"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world," Ahmadinejad said. "In one night, the martyrs strode down a path of 100 years." Ahmadinejad, who did not elaborate, was speaking to the families of those killed in a 1981 attack at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, Middle East Newsline reported.
The Teheran mayor has served as a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for the nation's missile and nuclear weapons programs, and has been identified as a suspect in the killing of Kurdish dissidents in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The 49-year-old Ahmadinejad, who participated in the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Teheran, in 1979, was regarded as the most anti-Western of the presidential candidates.
The last paragraph above confirms that Ahmadinejad did participate in the takeover of Our Embassy.