"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Revealed To Have Jewish Past," The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend.

Not true, says a Middle East analyst who wrote a biography of the Iranian leader.

Meir Javedanfar writes in The Guardian that the Ahmadinejad family's previous name — Sabourjian — is not, as the Daily Telegraph reported, "a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver."

Javedanfar notes that Guardian correspondent previously reported that "sabor" is Farsi for thread painter — and that the carpet industry was once common in the Iranian leader's native home of Semnan province.

We expect more experts will be weighing in on this.