Mistaken identity

It looks like I was right to doubt the reports a while back that said the new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the students involved in the 1979 hostage taking of U.S. embassy workers.

Here is the latest:
CIA finds Iranian president likely not hostage-taker

A CIA report has determined with "relative certainty" that new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not involved in the taking of U.S. hostages in 1979, two government officials told CNN.

I don’t know that this will make any real difference in U.S. - Iranian relations, however.