Caso Mahmud Ahmadineyad: hay que mantener las reservas

Actualizado!:

US agents probe past of Iran’s leader:

THE murders started in the 1980s. Kazem Sami, who was the first Iranian health minister after the 1979 Islamic revolution but fell out with the ayatollahs, was one of the first of dozens of dissidents to die. He was working in a Tehran clinic in November 1988 when an assailant posing as a patient stabbed him repeatedly.

The following July, three gunmen burst into a Vienna flat and opened fire on a meeting of Iranian Kurdish exiles. Among three people killed was Abdul Rahman Qassemlou, the leader of Kurdish opposition to the ayatollahs in Tehran. The murders have never been solved.

Almost a decade later, a clandestine group of Iranian militants began plotting the murder of Salman Rushdie, the victim of a fatwa sentencing him to death for supposed blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses.

For years there had been only the vaguest allegations of a link between those events. All that has changed with the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hardline former mayor of Tehran, as Iran’s new president.

Gracias a Maty por el «chivatazo».

Ayer anunciábamos, con muchas reservas, que algunos de los secuestrados hace 25 años en Irán decían reconocer en Mahmud Ahmadineyad uno de sus secuestradores.

Nos preguntábamos simplemente qué ocurriría si fuese verdad. Hoy nos tenemos que preguntar que ocurriría si todo fuese una maniobra encaminada a protejer no sabemos bien que obscuros propósitos.

Se ha generado una verdadera polémica sobre el asunto, de la que la blogosfera hispana apenas si da noticia. Para estas cosas nada mejor que seguir lo que se comenta en «A Daily Briefing on Iran»:

Two days ago Iran Focus alleged that the photo below was of Iranian President Elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We, of course, jumped right on the story.

Yesterday watching Hardball with Chris Matthews, one of the former hostages–I believe it was Don Sharer– denied that the man in the photo above was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But he claimed that he was 100% sure that Ahmadinejad was one of his captors, but that the photo above was not of Ahmadinejad. He said that Ahmadinejad was only around occasionally and seemed to be a leader of some sort when he did come around.

Oxrant was the first that I know of to attempt to debunk this. I should have linked to it yesterday but I was busy being sick. Look at the photo comparison which he gives here.

It looks as if the critics may be right on this one. It should be noted, though, that noses can change over time. My father’s, for instance, who broke his nose several times and it never looked the same. But having said that, Oxrant’s comparison does seem compelling.

But wait….there’s more. Oxrant notices some Freepers doing their homework here. The image compares recent photos of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to another person in the 1979 AP photos. Look at the man in the turtleneck, just to the right of the person circled above.

Were we simply looking at the wrong man in the photo? Go check out Oxen’s other photo comparisons. Here’s another page with more of the same photo comparisons.

No dejen de leerlo entero.