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WASHINGTON — Already saddled with resolving a looming nuclear showdown with Iran, the Bush administration now faces the possibility that that country's new leader helped take 52 Americans hostage in 1979. Earlier, the White House indicated.... Five Americans who were held for more than a year in the hostage crisis believe that Ahmadinejad was one of their captors.

A man taken hostage 25 years ago in Iran revisits those memories. On November 4th, 1979, Iranian militants stormed into the American embassy in Tehran and took 52 people hostage, including former US Navy Capt. Don Sharer. On Tuesday, the Exchange Club of Terre Haute honored Sharer for his military service. He reminded club members to honor all veterans, and those serving our country right now. Sharer was held prisoner in Iran for 444 days, and says he never lost hope that he would come home alive. "Whatever I did, I said I want to be proud of myself. I`m...