know, was signed under extreme duress. indeed, iran had sent a missive to the u.s. government saying that either you release $8 billion to us or we will summarily execute the hostages. the hostages at the time were being held in evan prison, which is where all the political prisoners in iran were held. a number of them were held across the room for the torture room where they could hear the screams of the people as they were being killed, water joses put down their throats to where they couldn t breathe, never taken out. parts of their body chopped up. and they heard the screaming. to where even today tom shafer, who was the top military officer in the em embassy wakes up in the middle of the night his wife has told me many times of how he has wakened, shot up in bed. he s in a pure sweat and he