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I have to be ok if you are watching the stream today were going to take you to 1988 was a turbulent time for us in iran relations shot iran was living in the United States he fled iran in iran american hostages have been grabbed from the u. S. Embassy in tehran and has to take a 2nd we are not giving back these americans until you give us the shah because we want him to stand trial for human rights abuses diplomacy wasnt working so in the midst of this back and forth president carter was preside...

I have to be ok and you are watching the stream today were going to take you to 1988 was a turbulent time for us around relations the shah of iran was living in the United States hed fled iran in iran american hostages have been grabbed from the u. S. Embassy in tehran and has to take a 2nd we are not giving back these americans until you give us the shah because we want him to stand trial for human rights abuses diplomacy wasnt working so in the midst of this back and forth president carter was...

Soon. Talk to aljazeera. Is the government not attacking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that air travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on aljazeera. I ever be ok if you are watching the stream today were going to take you to 1988 was a turbulent time for us around relations shot iran was living in the United States hed fled iran in iran american hos...

Midst of this back and forth president carter was present at a time for the United States he sanctioned a rescue mission for the hostages into iran that operation was known as operation eagle claw theres now a new documentary about that time lets take a look. I was 20 years old a young marine and i was signed to the United States embassy in tehran iran i had never heard of that country. I hear of thousands of people coming down to the embassy. And they started climbing over the gates. 2 weeks so...

Attack began. They were over the walls and soon the chain on the main gate was cut. This was filmed by a student. The motor pool was behind the main gates. He right was the chancellor that house the sensitive medications systems. The front doors of the chancellery had been bolted shut. Inside were 45 americans. The marine guards inside fired tear gas to buy time. When it was realized help was not coming, one of the Security Officers tried to persuade students to leave. He was immediately capture...

Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 he wouldnt let them determine what was happening domestically, only focused on the soviet union. So, the cia was hobbled in its ability to inform the white house and the president what was actually happening. Its totally fanciful that the cia was using u. S. Government money to pay off the opposition. You mentioned jimmy carter in essence being held hostage because of the crisis. In december of 79, he was on the mall, he did not like the Nat...

Okay. Im john limbert. I was in the Foreign Service for 34, 35 years. Ed served in the middle east or islamic africa. During that time, i didnt see what you would call a lot of big successes. There was not a lot of saving the world. Stop iping a coup. Averting a humanitarian disaster, stopping a war, the kind of thing you might seema dam secretary accomplish in her half hour series. I was the opposite. Trouble seemed to follow me where i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies. A lot of coups. I ...

The Public Policy program here at the center. Thank you for joining us today for this Panel Discussion on the 40th anniversary of the iran hostage crisis. On november 4th, 1979, 52 american diplomats and citizens were taken hostage by a crowd of ukrainian studeniranian studentd the u. S. Embassy in the wake of the iranian revolution in february of 1979. Even though the crisis ended with the release of the hostages on january 20th, 1981, after an incredible ordeal that lasted some 440, some 444 d...

Attack began. They were over the walls and soon the chain on the main gate was cut. This was filmed by a student. Here showing the area being overrun. The motor pool was behind the main gate to the embassy compound. To their right was the chancellory. The operational hub of the embassy that housed the Sensitive Communications systems. The heavy front doors of the chancellory had been bolted shut. Inside were 45 americans and plus iranian staff and some visitors. The marine guards inside fired te...

Insurgentsy within iran, the soviet union was trying to foster a communist insurgents in iran. We thought about that and sided with the shah of iran in part because he crushed that communist dissent in iran. I dont think most person political elites thought too much about the islamic disdents in that state. It was just kind of off the radar. Part of the reason i wrote the book i did was i was really trying to get across how reasonably so but nair rowly americans looked at alliances in that part ...