Hot Days, Sultry Nights -- Iranian Soap Opera?

I'm sorry, but the that's the first thing I thought of when I heard the story of former hostages ID-ing newly elected Iranian President Ahmadinejad as one of the captors from the 1979 revolution when students took over the U.S. Embassy*.

Some former hostages are dead-on sure. Others aren't quite convinced. Of course Ahmadinejad's camp denies it. The Bush Administration is on the fence (so what else is new? Anyone see a pair of flip flops? Oh, wait, Bush is wearing them...)

I can just see the single-camera set up. The looks of horror on the hostages's faces. The close up on the inscrutible Ahmadinejad. Bush, in a corner, playing with a ball of yarn (that's one of the only Saturday Night Live references I ever care to make).

Was he part of the U.S. Embassy takeover? Is Ahmadinejad a criminal or a an innnocently accused man? Stay tuned for the next episode of Hot Days, Sultry Nights....



*(The whole Iranian Hostage situation is so complicated. I don't know that much about it--only what I read in Reading Lolita in Tehran, but even if he did take part, that doesn't really mean much now. That entire event was such a mess. From what I've read, many students took part for many different reasons, and then the whole thing spiraled out of control.)