questions and to make our nation great. his presidency was marred by an energy crisis, inflation and of course, the taking of 52 american hostages by supporters of the new islamic republic in iran. the democratic establishment s worst fears about jimmy carter had been realized and they want him out and they also think he s likely to lose the election in 1980. there s an opening for a democrat to run against jimmy carter in the democratic primaries and to potentially beat him. the times call out for discipline and vision, because i see neither i offer myself. as a candidate for the presidency. my principles are simple. protect the earth. serve the people, and explore the universe. it s rather grand when you think about it protect the earth. that s how are you going to do that? but explore the universe what is that? serve the people. so it sounds marxian or something. but that s the way it came to
here in iran in 1979, the revolution, but there is more. iran didn t change the whole thing. egypt has a chance of being the first domino to fall. i want to talk about the 1979 revolution in iran. i wanted to talk to somebody who was actually there. this is a guy who actually went in and tried to rescue the 40s contamination and no one would listen to him then. joining me now from dallas is retired army lieutenant general william boikin. how are you? how are you? glenn: i think i can feel some of the frustration you had in 1979 when no one would listen to you. you were calling in and saying stop, this is not what you are saying what it is. can you bring us back in 1979
the united nations and itself author the right of the nuclear iran, how iran defies the west. how are you? thank you, good to be with you. glenn: can you tell me first of all, when you heard he might step down today. there was no idea what comes next, and you see what is happening in jordan and on saturday in algeria, et cetera, what is the average israeli feeling? i think there are two points that come from the current development that has we are seeing. number one, i think israel s shall concerned that the people i think israelis are concerned that the peace treaty needs to be preserved. many do believe that the national security leaders see the peace treaty with israel as
and walk out through, any parallels you might be seeing here? yeah, as the shah left iran and we begin to see these students rising up what was, at that time, called a democratic movement and later we recognized it as an islamic movement, they eventually took the u.s. embassy and ultimately took 53 american hostages and held them for 444 days and ayatollah came back after the sounds succeeded as taking over our embassy and hostages. what was a democratic revolution was rapidly recognized as an islamic revolution. today we have an islamic republic in iran and sharia law and nuclear program. glenn: everybody at the time said it couldn t happen.