CSPAN3 Oral Histories Former Iran Hostage John Limbert July 13, 2024
I was never really in that kind of position. Perhaps the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me wherever i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies , i served in iraq, served in sudan. None of which places would call hi am for american diplomacy. I had lived in iran. I went there as a diplomat. It was also about two and a half months before president carter decided to admit the deposed shaw and a few weeks after that a group of iranian militants stormed the epicene. Something vaguely like a student sit in. The and that the adults in the room would eventually get together and straighten it all out...