INTERNATIONAL A2-7 New Iranian President Denies He Took Hostages Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , the president-elect of Iran , denied he had been among the students who sacked the United States Embassy in 1979 and held American hostages for 444 days , as some of the former hostages have claimed .
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