Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was born on this day (October 28 – same day as Bill Gates, by the way) in 1956, has never exactly been a friend of the Jews (he has vowed to wipe Zionism off the map, and has come very close to denying the Holocaust, among other things), so there seemed to be an imminent irony overload in the making when it was alleged that Ahmadinejad was part-Jew himself. After the jump, we trace the controversy, and reveal the authority that has settled the question for good.

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