Goldie Ghamari - 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 444 Days Documentary： Explained by an Iranian (1⧸10)

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00:01:57.560 Good evening, everyone.

00:02:24.740 Welcome to another watch party with me, your host, Goldie Gamari, as well as several other

00:02:32.380 Iranians in the chat.

00:02:34.060 I want to give a shout out to our mods and our members who are joining us to watch this

00:02:42.020 live stream, or if you're watching it afterwards, hi to you all.

00:02:46.120 So today I was actually going to do a live stream about life in Iran before the 1979

00:02:54.100 islamic revolution and you know it was it was a very fun sort of light-hearted documentary

00:03:01.420 um but then i realized that today november 4 is the anniversary of the day that the islamic

00:03:09.880 republic took american diplomats hostage for 444 days and i wanted to share a few videos with you

00:03:22.420 some from today, some from before. And then we're going to go in and we're going to dive

00:03:28.160 into this documentary about the Iranian hostage crisis, or as I like to refer to it,

00:03:36.640 the Islamic Republic hostage crisis, because it was the Islamic Republic that took Americans

00:03:43.200 hostage, not Iran. I'm Iranian. The flag behind me is the real flag of Iran. That's the Iran that

00:03:50.940 was allies with the united states it was only when the islamic republic uh took iran hostage

00:03:58.380 in 1979 and it was only when the islamic republic imposed their islamo-fascist jihadi ideology

00:04:06.700 on iran it was then that they actually took americans hostage because prior to that

00:04:13.100 iran and the united states were close allies and once iran is free we will go back to being close

00:04:21.340 allies once again because this islamic jihadi ideology is the enemy of both iranians and the

00:04:29.740 islamic iranians and the united states so this jihadi islamo-fascist ideology is the enemy of

00:04:37.100 both iranians and the united states i want to start off with this video here um that you can

00:04:45.980 see on your screen so this is actually a video of u.s diplomats i'm just going to um make this

00:04:55.260 figure here so you guys can actually see it so this is a video of u.s diplomats and they were

00:05:02.860 attending um a friday prayer in iran this is occupied iran so this is just when um

00:05:11.420 this is just when the islamic republic had had occupied iran and uh you can see these

00:05:18.780 american diplomats they're obviously not muslim and yet here they are inside of a mosque they are

00:05:26.940 you know fake praying they're like pretending to to play uh sorry to pray um and they're doing so

00:05:35.420 because they're hoping that they're you know they're able to appease the islamists you know

00:05:41.900 that they're able to um appease the islamic republic and yet nine days later after they

00:05:49.980 attend this mosque to pretend pray to you know the islamic god allah um they are taken hostage

00:05:58.540 by the same people who are attending this mosque so so let's watch this video from 1979 where

00:06:04.300 american diplomats are bending the knee to islamists right let's watch

00:06:10.380 like you can see this guy here obviously has he has no idea what to do like like none of these

00:06:24.620 americans are muslim right so i don't know what the hell they're doing in a mosque anyway but

00:06:28.860 they're there to appease the islamists right um did you see that did you see that um

00:06:50.140 wait let me minimize this screen here how do i minimize this let's see how do i do this

00:06:56.540 there we go so did you see how these american diplomats are literally bending the knee to

00:07:05.100 islamic terrorists you know they're going to their mosque um you know they're they're fake

00:07:10.300 praying you know while aloha akbar is going off and in the background and then literally

00:07:15.660 nine days later on november 4 1979 these same american diplomats are taken hostage by the

00:07:24.300 islamists uh at this mosque right the ones they were trying to appease um so let this be a lesson

00:07:30.940 to you guys you know you cannot negotiate with islamic terrorists no matter how much you try

00:07:37.020 um you know here they are literally literally 1979 iran uh occupied iran right this is just

00:07:43.500 after the um the islamic coup d'etat and the american diplomats are thinking okay like you

00:07:49.580 you know, we're going to go to their mosque, we're going to, like, you know, pretend to pray to Allah,

00:07:53.460 whatever, and they'll leave us alone. False. Because you give them an inch, they take a mile.

00:07:59.360 And to me, I find it incredibly concerning that there are so many Western politicians today

00:08:04.940 who are literally going to mosques to pretend to pray because they think that doing so

00:08:10.460 is, like, a sign of, I don't know, friendship? No. When you do that, when you pretend to pray,

00:08:17.360 they basically see it as a sign of submission. So, you know, take a lesson from history because

00:08:24.740 history usually repeats itself. Let's watch this again now that you can see this. So these are

00:08:29.280 American diplomats, clueless American diplomats who are going to a mosque. They are pretend praying

00:08:36.740 because they want to try and appease the terrorist Islamic Republic. And nine days after they go to

00:08:46.180 this mosque and pretend to pray, they are taken hostage by the same people in this mosque.

00:08:55.360 Here they are.

00:08:59.900 No idea what they're doing.

00:09:01.680 Completely foolish.

00:09:08.540 There you go.

00:09:11.440 Bowing down and submitting to their God, right?

00:09:14.200 they're they're bowing down and submitting to their god Allah but that

00:09:17.820 wasn't good enough that was not good enough for the Islamic terrorists

00:09:21.320 Islamic terrorists instead saw that as a sign of weakness and said you know what

00:09:26.160 we're going to make an example of these American diplomats and then not only

00:09:31.920 was it good enough for the Islamic terrorists to take my country of Iran

00:09:35.620 hostage and to take you know 80 million Iranians hostage they also had to take

00:09:41.460 americans hostage and the americans i mean they handed themselves to the islamists on a on a not

00:09:47.980 even a silver platter on a gold platter right by going their mosque and bowing down you know fake

00:09:54.600 praying to allah they were basically saying yeah take us we're we're weak right um and not only

00:10:02.920 that so so that's a video from 1979 but let's look at what the islamic republic is doing today

00:10:09.440 guys so you know this is this is the islamic republic so they held this like weird jihadi

00:10:16.560 parade here um of course this is attended only by people who support the islamic republic so

00:10:23.760 as you can see you know these videos which is broadcast by islamic regime state tv

00:10:29.760 they don't actually pan out they don't actually zoom out to show the crowd

00:10:33.680 because there's hardly anyone attending these parades right like tehran has a population

00:10:39.440 of 30 million people. They would be lucky if maybe 10,000 people showed up. And of those 10,000,

00:10:50.900 I would say at least 70% of them are people who work for the Islamic Republic themselves,

00:10:56.360 plus, you know, their women and children. And then the other 30% would be people that they

00:11:01.600 bust in from rural areas, you know, poor villages and farms. And they basically give them lunch.

00:11:09.440 you know, in, in, in return for them coming to attend these so-called, you know, jihadi parades,

00:11:16.180 right? So, I mean, look, look at what they're doing here. Like, they're, they're literally

00:11:20.180 dressing up like, like President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, okay? And this, you know,

00:11:28.660 like, this is how, like, evil and demonic and sick the Islamic Republic is. This is how, like,

00:11:35.600 mental these people I just want to say like this like this is how messed up their their jihadi

00:11:42.220 ideology is these people are literally celebrating the day that they took Americans hostage right

00:11:49.340 I mean you have to be really sick in the head to celebrate that like like you're not a normal

00:11:54.620 person you're literally a seventh century Islamic inbred savage right because who the hell

00:12:00.340 celebrates hostage-taking. Oh, wait, I know who celebrates hostage-taking. The Balistinians,

00:12:07.520 right? Hamas and the Balistinians and the Gazans, they also celebrate hostage-taking.

00:12:13.660 Where do you think the Balistinians learned this behavior from? They learned it from,

00:12:18.040 you know, their big daddy, the Islamic Republic. So, I mean, all these Islamic terrorists,

00:12:24.040 They operate the same. They have the same, you know, MO. They have the same behavior, you know, so that the fake Palestinians and their fake Palestinian cause, they all they all get it from from the Islamic Republic.

00:12:39.500 So let's now watch this weird Islamic jihadi parade that happened in occupied Iran, funded by the Islamic Republic.

00:12:50.460 oh and by the way right like so they're making fun of um president trump here and of course you

00:12:58.680 know prime minister netanyahu and then you know these are the people like like like these are the

00:13:04.320 jihadis that tucker carlson wants you to believe um you know are not your enemy right like tucker

00:13:12.640 carlson literally says that um you know the islamic republic is not your enemy but israel is

00:13:19.080 So, I mean, pay attention to all of these like, you know, weird people in the West who are actively supporting the Islamic Republic because there is no good reason to support the Islamic Republic ever unless you're getting paid by them.

00:13:39.300 Right. I can see I'm triggering a lot of people in the chat.

00:13:43.840 So I'm glad that you guys are being triggered because, you know, the facts don't really care about your feelings.

00:13:52.220 So, you know, you can continue continue to be triggered here.

00:13:55.720 Let me pull up the other video while I'm at it so I can continue triggering the Islamic terrorists in the chat.

00:14:02.400 So, again, here's here's another video.

00:14:05.720 So this is the Islamic Republic.

00:14:09.300 right like they're holding like some weird jihadi like islamic um islamic like court or something

00:14:19.140 and they're basically like trying like they're they're like pretending to like try um presidents

00:14:26.740 uh trump and prime minister netanyahu for like war crimes which is actually like completely um

00:14:34.020 messed up because it's the islamic republic that are responsible for war crimes but like here's

00:14:38.900 like this other like weird jihadi islamic play that the um islamic republic orchestrated today

00:14:46.900 in honor of the american hostage taking right so

00:15:08.900 there you can see so that's you know that's supposed to be president trump

00:15:17.340 you know he's oh look look president trump is in um in in handcuffs there right so i mean

00:15:32.580 there you go like like these are the weird like islamic jihadi like savages that tucker carlson

00:15:40.780 wants you to think are not your enemies right like they're they're literally holding like weird

00:15:45.500 islamic jihadi plays um where they're putting president trump on trial i don't know what

00:15:51.420 uh because you know the islamic republic are the war criminals but uh yeah you know it makes you

00:15:57.540 wonder makes you wonder so again today is the anniversary of the um uh you know hostage crisis

00:16:04.940 now a lot of people refer to it as the iran hostage crisis um as an iranian i refer to it as

00:16:11.180 the islamic republic hostage crisis because prior to 1979 prior to the islamic occupation of iran

00:16:19.680 prior to the imposition of sharia law um and you know their backwards 7th century islamic ideology

00:16:26.500 Iran, which was a normal secular country, was actually one of the strongest allies of the United States at the time.

00:16:34.680 It was only when Sharia law came and took Iran hostage that, you know, they started yelling death to America, death to Israel.

00:16:43.360 So, you know, a little bit of input and insight into the real culprit here, because the real culprit is not Iran or Iranians.

00:16:51.680 Iranians, the real culprit is that jihadi Islamic ideology that has taken Iran hostage. So with

00:17:00.880 that, we're going to move to the documentary that we're going to watch today. It's called

00:17:06.420 444 Days to Iran Hostage Crisis. It is fully available on YouTube. So yeah, it says here,

00:17:17.680 So this documentary has almost 60,000 views on this channel.

00:17:24.100 Someone in the chat is saying, is the Islamic Republic the only war criminal?

00:17:28.960 100% the Islamic Republic is the only war criminal.

00:17:33.900 The United States and Israel are not war criminals.

00:17:36.500 Take your jihadi Islamic propaganda somewhere else.

00:17:39.840 It is not welcome on this channel.

00:17:42.440 This is a pro-Iran channel.

00:17:44.280 This is a pro-USA channel.

00:17:46.280 This is a pro-Israel channel. This is a pro-Zionist channel. We do not tolerate

00:17:52.340 fake Palestine or, you know, Islamofascist jihadi nonsense. So, this documentary, okay,

00:17:59.840 it was a 444-day ordeal for the U.S. diplomats held hostage from November 4, 1979 to January 20,

00:18:09.680 1981. All right, guys, we are going to start watching this documentary. And I will provide

00:18:18.820 my thoughts and feedback as we go. The one thing I want to point out is that it is always frustrating

00:18:24.380 for me when these documentaries say Iran and not the Islamic Republic, because when they say Iran,

00:18:31.800 they're actually not properly identifying the source of terrorism. The source of terrorism

00:18:38.340 is not Iran. The source of terrorism is the Islamic Republic. The source of terrorism is

00:18:44.940 Sharia law. And the source of terrorism is their seventh century Islamic ideology that occupied

00:18:52.000 Iran in 1979, has been holding Iranian people hostage, has been murdering Iranian people every

00:18:57.820 day in the name of Allah and Muhammad and Islam. And then they started attacking Americans as well.

00:19:04.160 So that would be my one major criticism so far, because when non-Iranians don't understand that difference and distinction between the Islamic Republic and Iran, they will assume that the enemy is Iranians.

00:19:18.860 No, the enemy is not Iranians. The enemy, again, is the Islamic Republic.

00:19:23.260 And if you look at my other documentaries, other watch parties, I've shown numerous times that Iran and the United States were very, very close allies. In fact, Richard Nixon was a very, very good friend of the Shah of Iran at the time.

00:19:42.500 And it was Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, the idiotic Democrat, who backed the Ayatollah, right? So it was Jimmy Carter who supported the Islamists. And then the Islamists took power and started yelling death to America. For some reason, Democrats in America have always supported Islamic terrorists.

00:20:03.460 I don't know why. Seems like some sort of weird fetish or mental illness. No clue. But let's begin watching this documentary now.

00:20:13.960 So I would say right now I'm at a seven out of 10 without having seen anything only because they call it the Iran hostage crisis.

00:20:23.100 And so that, you know, that naturally makes people think that, you know, it's us Iranians, but it wasn't us.

00:20:29.600 you know, the enemy is the Islamic Republic. So, and by the way, many of the university students

00:20:36.160 who were involved in the hostage crisis in 1979 are now, unfortunately, part of the Islamic

00:20:45.340 Republic leadership, right? So they're the ones who are continuing this jihad against the West,

00:20:52.080 and they're the ones who are murdering us Iranians when we speak out and try to reclaim

00:20:58.700 our country so without further ado let's get started and if you're if you're liking

00:21:03.660 the stream make sure that you like and subscribe and share it with everyone you know so we can

00:21:09.580 get the truth out there during the night of january the 20th 1981 52 american diplomats

00:21:21.180 arrive in Algiers from Tehran they can finally breathe freely after being held

00:21:30.200 hostage in Iran for a very long and difficult time the hostage crisis lasted

00:21:46.460 four hundred and forty four days each one an ordeal filled with psychological

00:21:50.700 torture and physical abuse for the world's most powerful nation it was

00:21:55.920 four hundred and forty four days of humiliation that ended with it having

00:21:59.780 to cede to the demands dictated by an Iran in the midst of its own

00:22:03.620 revolutionary uprising several decades of resentment towards the United States

00:22:08.120 spurred the events that took place from November 1979 to January 1981

00:22:16.460 Resentment that's still alive in Iran.

00:22:22.680 The U.S. Embassy, focal point of the hostage crisis, and now a museum named U.S. Den of Espionage Museum, keeps hate towards America alive.

00:22:32.300 so that's actually not true so so that's one of the biggest uh pieces of propaganda that the

00:22:43.340 islamic republic was able to get away with um for a very long time they managed to convince

00:22:51.780 americans that we iranians um hate america and that is you know the farthest thing from the truth

00:23:00.000 Um, and I actually did an entire, um, live stream on this. Let me just pull it up so I can

00:23:08.000 show it to you guys very quickly. So, um, it was, here we go. It was last week. Okay.

00:23:17.180 Let me just pull this up here. So last week, I actually did a live stream called USA vs. Iran. So make sure that you guys go and watch that, because that's going to show you what Iranians actually think about the United States.

00:23:45.120 for the longest time okay for the longest time um many people including those who made this

00:23:53.580 documentary assumed that all Iranians hated the United States and the reason that they thought

00:24:01.700 so is because when the Islamic Republic took control of Iran in 1979 they also controlled

00:24:09.400 the media because iran is currently occupied by a totalitarian islamic dictatorship so um everything

00:24:17.720 that comes out of of the you know tv media radio whatever is 100 uh controlled by the islamic

00:24:26.520 republic and so you never get the actual picture the only thing you get is propaganda so the

00:24:33.160 Islamic Republic painted this image of Iranians hating the United States right and unfortunately

00:24:43.000 people believed that even though you know there are countless countless of images um photos videos

00:24:51.880 from the 1970s that show that Iran and the United States were very close allies so again it was the

00:24:58.200 islamic republic that created this enmity and because the islamic republic is a totalitarian

00:25:05.640 dictatorship and has complete control of the news and the media the rest of the world

00:25:12.600 legitimately thought that um iranians hated the west which is the farthest thing from the truth

00:25:20.040 and the one of the reasons that the islamic republic wanted the rest of the world to think

00:25:24.520 that way is because they didn't want to know that iranians are under occupation they didn't want to

00:25:29.480 know that iranians are being held against their will um at literal gunpoint right um and so it's

00:25:37.880 only been in recent years i would say probably since about you know 2012 2015 with the rise of

00:25:47.400 social media and of course the internet that iranians have been able to communicate with the

00:25:54.440 outside world and to show the outside world what sort of you know islamic hellhole they have been

00:26:03.160 trapped in since 1979 and there's a reason that social media is banned in occupied iran right

00:26:11.000 Iranians are not allowed to use social media. Those who do, who speak out against the Islamic Republic, are at risk of being murdered, which happens, unfortunately, very frequently.

00:26:25.300 Any Iranian who speaks out against the Islamic Republic is executed. I'm actually going to speak about that tomorrow during my daily live stream about one of the most recent victims of the Islamic Republic.

00:26:40.200 his name is omid starlak i'm going to be speaking about him tomorrow so you want to make sure to

00:26:43.800 tune in at 12 noon for that one um but so so the islamic republic always painted this this image

00:26:50.760 and so in this live stream here okay um usa versus iran i go into detail about what um iranians

00:27:01.160 actually think about the united states and i provide images i provide videos i provide you

00:27:06.600 you know documents uh documents you know testimony the whole thing so you want to make sure to watch

00:27:12.300 that but all that to say um just this this documentary that we're going to watch just

00:27:19.380 bear that in mind bear that in mind um even even the narrator of this documentary does not

00:27:26.940 understand or make a distinction between Iranians and the Islamic Republic because again it's not

00:27:32.720 It's not Iranians. Iranians were fine with America. Iranians are still fine with America. We have no enmity, no issue towards them. It's the Islamic Republic itself. And when you look at, you know, older documentaries about Iran, you could see that close friendship between Iran and America.

00:27:53.460 so so i just want you guys to keep that in mind as we go through um this documentary that's just my

00:28:00.180 one one pet peeve with us oh wait sorry i also see we have um a starred comment so major i know

00:28:10.580 that the whack jobs keep chanting like they won a great victory against a bunch of unarmed people

00:28:17.060 whose few armed guards were told not to fight back 100 100 i mean and and these are the so the the

00:28:24.500 same whack jobs who took um americans hostage they were the same ones who were murdering iranians in

00:28:32.980 the streets who were fighting back like these are the same whack jobs who were murdering um iranian

00:28:38.980 politicians as well so first they went after the iranians uh they went after people who supported

00:28:44.660 the shah and then they came after the americans and many of these people

00:28:49.300 are now unfortunately in power and it's just a very um very horrific

00:29:14.660 the embassy was seized on the morning of november the 4th 1979

00:29:34.760 the operation was prepared by islamic leaders in the universities in tehran

00:29:41.280 did you guys hear that did you guys so you know to her credit at least she does mention

00:29:47.940 that the operation was basically created and organized by islamic leaders right

00:29:56.720 right like are you guys seeing the pattern here so it wasn't iranians that did this it was the

00:30:04.160 islamic leaders it was the clergy the men of god right the people who claim that they speak on

00:30:09.780 behalf of Allah they were the ones who orchestrated um the American hostage crisis who incited 400

00:30:16.940 students to go storm the American embassy

00:30:19.080 despite the revolutionary turbulence and how many how many was that I missed that operation was

00:30:27.560 prepared by Islamic leaders in the universities in Tehran who incited 400 students to go storm

00:30:33.640 the american embassy and see like that's all it was it was it was 400 students right so 400

00:30:40.840 islamic students right does that sound familiar to some of like the university encampments that

00:30:47.060 you're seeing in the west right you know what what's the common undercurrent here between

00:30:52.920 these islamist university students in iran versus those in the united states right the

00:31:00.140 the common denominator um is that islamic ideology right

00:31:09.580 despite the revolutionary turbulence and anti-american sentiment in the country

00:31:14.220 the embassy did not increase security the marines who were ordered not to shoot didn't resist for

00:31:21.340 very long the american diplomats who'd been controlling iran for decades underestimated

00:31:32.060 the siege carried that was that was a weird thing to say the american diplomats who had been

00:31:38.300 controlling iran for decades that is um that's that's very bizarre and completely um untrue

00:31:47.180 I thought that the adults in the room would act and realize something like this is simply

00:32:02.780 unacceptable. Well, what happened was there were no adults in the room.

00:32:09.980 No, the adults in the room were encouraging this. The adults in the room

00:32:14.460 were the Islamic jihadis who took over the country thanks to Jimmy Carter,

00:32:20.140 and then they turned around and they stabbed you guys in the back.

00:32:24.300 Or even worse, the adults encouraged the children who were running amok.

00:32:33.740 I knew that we were in trouble when I heard one or two days after the embassy's seizure

00:32:41.100 that Khomeini had backed the students who had invaded our premises.

00:32:50.960 At the beginning of the hostage crisis,

00:32:53.640 Iran had only recently come under the rule of an important religious dignitary,

00:32:57.640 the Ayatollah Khomeini.

00:32:59.880 I can't believe they refer to him as an important religious dignitary.

00:33:04.900 He was not an important religious dignitary.

00:33:07.600 he was um a savage islamic pedophile who basically wanted to impose sharia law and imposed sharia law

00:33:16.320 and he just he hated everything about the west like he he wanted to establish an islamic caliphate

00:33:21.680 and he saw america as the enemy to doing so jesus christ i can't believe jimmy carter thought this

00:33:28.800 guy would be good for iran like jimmy carter is an idiot i hope he's rotting in hell quickly don

00:33:33.920 the cloak of supreme leader of the nation his followers called him imam khomeini

00:33:41.680 he came to power following the iranian revolution that overthrew the shah of iran mohammad race

00:33:47.760 it wasn't the iranian revolution it was the islamic revolution i hate when people call

00:33:52.000 it the iranian revolution because it has nothing to do with iran the pahlavi the shah had ruled

00:33:58.320 the country with an iron fist for nearly 40 years back okay again that's totally false uh we've

00:34:04.380 already established in previous documentaries that the shah was not an authoritarian he didn't rule

00:34:09.900 iran with an iron fist in fact he was a progressive he was a modern he gave women the right to vote in

00:34:15.520 1963 uh before women had the right to vote in countries like sweden and switzerland and

00:34:20.680 portugal so again like that that that narrative is the uh islamic narrative that's the communist

00:34:27.860 narrative right like that's that she's literally promoting the narrative of the people who took the

00:34:34.020 americans hostage right because they actually used that that lie and propaganda about the shah being

00:34:40.740 an authoritarian in order to justify overthrowing him but then by doing so by overthrowing him

00:34:46.740 they actually did turn iran into a legitimate islamic dictatorship okay prior to the 1979

00:34:54.340 iran was relatively free and it was moving rapidly towards modernization and the reason

00:35:01.780 that the jihadis took over is because they did not like the fact that iran was moving towards

00:35:07.060 modernization they did not like the fact that the shah was giving women equal rights to men

00:35:13.540 so again that's just false propaganda a false narrative it's propaganda um how could the shah be

00:35:21.220 authoritarian when he's giving women the right to vote and if if iran was actually um under his

00:35:28.100 authoritarian rule why the hell would women get the right to vote anyway like do you see the um

00:35:34.820 the contradictions here in this narrative 1.00

00:35:40.260 by the united states for political and security support

00:35:45.380 crowds flocked to see khomeini at each of his appearances but he knew his power was fragile

00:35:51.220 he had to walk a fine line to please the people on all political sides who had

00:35:56.120 brought him to power the Islamists who were devoted to him the pro-west

00:36:00.720 liberals who supported him but he wanted to limit his role to that of a

00:36:04.480 mom it's wild to me that the pro-west liberals supported oh by the way guys

00:36:10.100 do you see this oh look I stopped at the perfect time so there's also the

00:36:14.800 communists right so when we talk about um the islamo-marxists um who support who support the

00:36:22.140 islamist this is what we're talking about do you see that like communist sign there that's from the

00:36:25.820 um you know uh another um islamic marxist terrorist group so literally the people who

00:36:34.480 claim that the shah was a dictator are either islamic terrorists or they're marxist terrorists

00:36:40.460 right um those are the ones who were accusing the shah of being an authoritarian dictator even

00:36:48.220 though they're the ones who are the actual uh authoritarians and they're the ones who are the

00:36:53.100 actual terrorists so again guys these are the people who overthrew the shah the communists

00:36:58.300 and the islamists right we call this the unholy alliance of the red and the black

00:37:02.860 authority the movements on the left which hoped to one day control the country

00:37:10.460 Khomeini decided to eliminate all political forces that stood in his way of securing absolute power.

00:37:17.340 Okay, so who's the authoritarian? The evil demon man who turned Iran into a 7th century Islamic

00:37:24.700 hellhole governed by Sharia law or the Shah who gave women the right to vote, right? Like do you

00:37:30.460 see how messed up the narrative is when it comes to Iran and how these non-Iranian documentaries

00:37:37.660 try so desperately to like push and promote this revisionist um narrative that just does

00:37:44.940 not make sense and does not hold up to scrutiny clever strategist he asked the islamist forces

00:37:51.900 to carry out anti-american actions to get the people on his side he didn't want to leave

00:37:57.660 anti-american sentiment which was the driving force in iran in the hands of the left which

00:38:03.020 which was becoming more and more powerful.

00:38:05.740 Like, do you see, so these are the people,

00:38:08.820 these communists are the people

00:38:11.480 who are accusing the Shah of being a dictator, right?

00:38:14.640 It's the same as, like, these weird communists in the West today

00:38:18.340 who are accusing elected officials of being dictators.

00:38:21.860 It's the exact same thing.

00:38:27.440 After the siege, our only goal was to...

00:38:33.020 guys they're actually interviewing um an islamic terrorist

00:38:42.080 this is wild this is why like they're actually interviewing one of the islamic jihadi terrorists

00:38:52.160 who took americans hostage and they're treating him like he's some sort of normal human being and

00:38:59.340 like a savage um islamic terrorist like this is this is insane see this is a problem like like

00:39:06.060 western media are normalizing these savage jihadis right this would be like like this is the

00:39:13.740 equivalent of um i don't know like you know casually interviewing um a former nazi during

00:39:22.860 a documentary about the holocaust right and then the nazi is like living you know in some

00:39:29.180 western country you know free right like no jail no nothing um after world war ii nazis were

00:39:35.180 persecuted as they should um but yet in the case of iran these islamic terrorists literally are

00:39:43.500 living freely in western countries and they're just now being casually interviewed let's casually

00:39:50.060 interview this islamic terrorist right he should be in jail but instead he's being casually

00:39:55.980 interviewed again guys this is like the equivalent of uh listening to a nazi casually talk about

00:40:04.940 you know the holocaust like that's how horrific this is to me as an iranian

00:40:11.340 to let the political leaders of the country know that we were not part of the marxist left movements

00:40:18.780 we're people militants who have experienced with struggles the revolution

00:40:33.660 and we clearly and completely support imam khomeini so they're they're literally saying

00:40:41.660 that they support the islamists he he's one of them he's literally an islamic terrorists

00:40:48.780 and he's just talking about it so casually right like this man is responsible for the blood

00:40:53.420 of millions of iranians right um he's responsible for turning iran into the brutal 7th century

00:41:00.700 islamic hellhole it is today and yet i find it very interesting that he is living somewhere in

00:41:07.340 the west right so so he turned iran into a 7th century islamic hellhole and yet he's living

00:41:14.060 comfortably in some Western non-Islamic country. Unbelievable.

00:41:20.380 The resentment of Iranians toward the United States in particular was always there. What the

00:41:25.500 revolution changed was now people were able to express this, something they had never done before.

00:41:35.740 And all of these pent up was like pot. The lid just blew off the pot.

00:41:41.660 The takeover of the embassy by his followers was the opportunity Khomeini had been hoping for

00:41:47.980 so he could cement his power. He immediately backed the hostage takers and hailed their action

00:41:54.020 as a second revolution, even bigger than the first, which had overthrown the Shah just a few

00:41:59.780 months earlier. The massive rallying sparked by the takeover of the embassy positioned Khomeini

00:42:07.920 as the only protector of the Iranian people,

00:42:11.120 dispossessed for so long by the Americans.

00:42:15.180 It was also a chance for him to get a bargaining chip,

00:42:19.820 freeing the hostages in exchange for extraditing the Shah,

00:42:23.180 who had been taken in by the United States.

00:42:26.460 The former monarch had been in New York since late October,

00:42:29.900 receiving treatment for cancer.

00:42:31.960 Khomeini was worried.

00:42:33.420 He feared the Americans would attempt a coup

00:42:35.300 to restore the Shah to the throne.

00:42:37.920 I think there was no question that the Americans would return the Shah to Iran.

00:42:44.420 We just weren't going to do that.

00:42:46.420 He had collaborated with us over many years and made many sacrifices.

00:42:52.420 So we owed him.

00:42:54.420 So at least this guy is admitting that prior to the Islamic takeover of Iran,

00:43:00.420 America and Iran were allies, right?

00:43:03.720 Like the Shah was an ally of the United States.

00:43:07.920 Not Jimmy Carter, though. Jimmy Carter is an Islamist sellout.

00:43:11.920 A great deal.

00:43:12.920 President Carter, when he agreed to allow the Shah to come to the United States for medical treatment,

00:43:19.920 he was reluctant, but he agreed, and he turned to his advisers,

00:43:24.920 and he said, what are you going to advise me to do when our embassy is occupied

00:43:30.920 and our people are taken hostage?

00:43:33.920 as soon as khomeini came to power several embassies were hit with takeover attempts by revolutionary

00:43:41.700 groups on february the 14th 1979 the american embassy itself was the target of an attack by

00:43:50.140 marxist militants see again like it's it's always the communists and the marxists and the islamists

00:43:57.600 are you guys seeing the pattern here like the the 1979 islamic takeover was not normal iranians it

00:44:04.800 was the marxists and the communists and the islamists right and they're the ones who are

00:44:08.820 constantly out there attacking and yet you guys are letting these communists and islamists operate

00:44:15.360 freely in your countries guys do you think that like this happened overnight no this was the

00:44:20.840 product of about 40 years worth right this was two generations in the making um from 1941 until 1979

00:44:28.600 so i mean what happened in iran guys it didn't happen overnight um it took 40 years and we're

00:44:35.600 already starting to see the signs of you know similar behavior in western countries so don't

00:44:42.440 think it can't happen in your countries if you don't pay attention um and wake up

00:44:47.460 Khomeini militia quickly had them evacuated.

00:44:51.460 This time, the Americans knew that the situation was different.

00:44:57.460 Khomeini's own followers were occupying the embassy.

00:45:01.460 Jimmy Carter, the American president, sensed that negotiations would be difficult.

00:45:07.460 His national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, suggested there might be another option,

00:45:13.460 A rescue mission that the military had been secretly evaluating.

00:45:20.360 In Tehran, confusion reigned supreme in the streets and within governmental bodies.

00:45:25.860 There was no government.

00:45:28.340 A council of the Islamic Revolution, whose members were all named by Khomeini, was running the country.

00:45:34.780 This body nominated Abul Hassan Banisada as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

00:45:39.460 i went to see mr who told me we're going to keep the hostages for three or four days

00:45:46.420 my gosh i'm sure like this this islamic jihadi grifter probably made a fortune doing the

00:45:53.320 documentary around right because we also saw him guys in that other documentary which we rated

00:45:58.420 three out of ten about the islamic republic right um and again like living comfortably

00:46:04.420 you know in a western country so this guy helped turn iran into the islamic hellhole it is today

00:46:12.020 and now he's living you know some affluent life in in a western country

00:46:17.480 long enough for america to realize it has committed crimes and then we'll free them

00:46:22.200 so i agreed to become minister of foreign affairs

00:46:25.120 Two weeks after the takeover and the start of the hostage crisis, Khomeini sent a signal.

00:46:37.760 He instructed his son, Ahmad Khomeini, to free a few hostages.

00:46:42.700 His son decided to release 13 of them, just African-Americans and women.

00:46:49.940 That's kind of weird.

00:46:51.280 like so they basically released all the women and the black people and then the white male

00:46:55.600 white males had to stay that's i don't know weird thinking there

00:47:02.960 although bani sada was officially in charge of the fate of the hostages

00:47:06.640 his hands were tied her mainly forbade him from having any direct contact with the americans

00:47:14.000 he and his advice that's that's kind of weird right like so so you have this guy who's supposed

00:47:19.440 to be the foreign affairs minister and yet he can't even speak or negotiate with the americans

00:47:25.360 like these these is these islamic jihadis are just savages right um just wild amad salamatyan

00:47:33.200 appealed to the un and requested a meeting of the security council they hope to obtain a fair

00:47:39.040 and balanced decision conviction of the united states for their interference under the reign of

00:47:44.240 of the Shah and the release of the hostages.

00:47:50.240 I went to the United Nations with this mission

00:47:53.920 to try to get the UN Security Council

00:47:56.860 to meet to discuss the hostage situation.

00:48:02.720 And the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs,

00:48:05.860 Mr. Bani Sadir, would also be there in person

00:48:10.540 and we would come to an agreement.

00:48:12.300 I was convinced that it was possible, that it was doable.

00:48:18.480 When I had to go to the UN Security Council meeting to solve the problem,

00:48:22.900 Mr Khomeini issued a statement saying,

00:48:25.920 no one will attend the UN Security Council meeting on Iran's behalf.

00:48:32.180 So I resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

00:48:37.500 That morning, 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning,

00:48:40.500 I read the news about the Minister of Foreign Affairs not coming.

00:48:46.820 Let me tell you that up until the time that I got on the plane and left,

00:48:51.460 I hid from the UN diplomats because I was ashamed.

00:48:57.980 Powerless, the Americans watched the days in captivity rack up

00:49:01.320 as they awaited news from their fellow citizens trapped in Khomeini's grasp.

00:49:05.580 The Iranians watched as authorities played a game of musical chairs

00:49:11.240 In late November 1979, a new foreign affairs minister was named, Sadegh Gopzadeh

00:49:19.400 An ambitious man who thought his close relationship with Khomeini

00:49:23.700 Would afford him some leeway to resolve the hostage crisis

00:49:27.060 well aware that it was forbidden to speak with the americans

00:49:35.600 he asked two friends christian bourguet a french lawyer and an argentine businessman

00:49:41.680 to contact the american administration

00:49:43.880 from the outset president jimmy carter gave the iranians a promising sign

00:49:52.460 he asked the shot keep in mind like jimmy carter is the one that brought these people in jimmy

00:49:59.700 carter endorsed the ayatollah like that's how much of an idiot jimmy carter is like we we hate

00:50:05.540 jimmy carter um we love richard nixon but jimmy carter like he can rot in hell leave america

00:50:11.980 and continue his treatment in panama a country under american control

00:50:16.600 on behalf of iran christian bourguet the lawyer wanted to begin the extradition process

00:50:25.000 the panamanian president was playing both sides

00:50:29.120 he told the iranians that legal action was possible and he ensured that the shah was safe

00:50:35.680 in his dealings with khomeini kobzadeh always presented khomeini with a done deal

00:50:44.560 Gobzadeh wasn't one to discuss taking action with Khomeini.

00:50:50.480 Gobzadeh took action first, and then he packaged it up.

00:50:58.280 The United Nations were still looking for a way to resolve this international crisis

00:51:02.440 with unforeseeable consequences.

00:51:08.260 In agreement with the American President, the UN Secretary General traveled to Tehran

00:51:13.020 in early January 1980. Kurt Waldheim hoped to meet with both the American hostages to

00:51:20.380 make sure they were in good health and Khomeini to negotiate their release. Instead, he was

00:51:27.280 met with an angry mob. Hundreds of Iranians unleashed their hatred of the Shah on him.

00:51:33.900 Not Iranians, Islamists. But I also find it interesting that they say hundreds of Iranians,

00:51:41.460 in a city of millions of people the fact that there was only hundreds should send a signal to

00:51:47.780 you again like the islamic revolution was not like a mass popular sort of revolution it was

00:51:55.140 um it was by the communists and the islamists right the rest of the people just sort of were

00:52:01.460 the silent majority and they never thought that they would actually gain control by the time that

00:52:07.140 the communists and islamists gained control it was too late and then they had access to all the

00:52:12.020 guns and everything so again think about that think about the fact about what she said you know

00:52:16.900 hundreds came out in a city of millions of people hundreds coming out is nothing the same shah who

00:52:24.180 was accused of committing torture and crimes with the help of the americans so okay so now apparently

00:52:31.460 not only is the story that the shah you know god rest his soul um committed torture uh and and

00:52:38.420 crimes but the torture and crimes were actually helped by the americans so apparently now the

00:52:44.500 americans were also somehow torturing uh like islamists right so do you see how these jihadis

00:52:50.980 lie um they always lie about one thing or another and so apparently in order to justify taking

00:52:58.580 innocent um americans hostage in 1979 they had to make up this fake lie that americans were

00:53:05.700 torturing iranians which is 100 the farthest thing from the truth right so again pay attention like

00:53:11.540 these jihadis these um islamists all they do is they just lie um in order to justify their terrorist

00:53:20.020 jihadi behavior right it's all part of takia right it's all takia again like we've demonstrated in

00:53:27.700 other documentaries, there's actually no, there's no proof or, or evidence of the Shah ever like

00:53:35.940 torturing anyone. It's, it's all just like fake. Kurt Waldheim left Tehran without meeting with

00:53:52.740 Khomeini or the hostages. He later recounted that he was scared for his life.

00:54:04.100 Yeah I mean anyone would be scared for their lives going and you know being surrounded by

00:54:08.500 a bunch of savage jihadis that are yelling at you like Allah Akbar, I would be scared too.

00:54:13.940 The UN was not giving up. It still attempted to be the mediator.

00:54:18.020 Valdheim accepted Sadek Gobsadeh's proposal to create a commission to mitigate the explosive

00:54:24.800 situation in Tehran.

00:54:30.860 Inside the UN, talks about who should be on the commission went on for several weeks.

00:54:39.020 It was finally formed in February and arrived in Tehran on an official mission to investigate

00:54:44.900 criminal interference by the americans in iran during the reign of the shah

00:54:51.860 but we went further than that we had the tacit agreement of everyone even the iranians themselves

00:55:00.900 the commission was looking for a way to free the hostages

00:55:05.540 and step by step really wanted to meet with hostages

00:55:08.900 We thought that a visit like that of the members of the U.N. Commission could be a way to gather information that could later be used to harm the hostages and us students.

00:55:29.100 Mr Khomeini made a statement saying that the UN Commission

00:55:37.480 had to deliver its report before leaving Iran.

00:55:41.980 The Commission came to see me, and they said,

00:55:46.360 well, you know, following a statement like that,

00:55:50.080 even though we want to issue a report, it would have zero validity.

00:55:55.020 The members of the commission refused to submit themselves to Khomeini's demand.

00:56:02.300 They left Tehran without seeing the hostages or gaining the slightest glimmer of hope of freeing

00:56:07.260 them. Their mission was a failure. It was now a glaring fact that the UN was powerless and could

00:56:17.340 do nothing to resolve this international crisis. Of course, because you can't negotiate with

00:56:23.020 terrorists i mean i don't understand why these people think that they're dealing with with

00:56:26.860 rational normal actors here you're literally dealing with jihadis um who are making up lies

00:56:33.580 to justify uh taking hostages and murdering people while the un was attempting mediation

00:56:41.420 secret talks between the americans and the iranians never right like like that's that's the one thing

00:56:46.140 i want you guys to focus on like we're we're about um we're 16 minutes into this documentary

00:56:53.580 and they've they've said that the uh you know the the islamists took the americans hostage

00:57:01.180 but they actually haven't provided a reason why right they still haven't said why the jihadis

00:57:08.220 took americans hostage and that's because unless you understand um how like islamofascism works

00:57:15.980 unless you understand the mentality behind sharia law um you're not going to get it but if you

00:57:23.260 understand sharia law if you understand um islamic extremism if you understand how islamic terrorism

00:57:29.260 works then you realize that um the reason that they took americans hostage is because america

00:57:38.220 um is in direct contradiction to sharia law and so the islamists were basically doing that to

00:57:45.740 impose their will um over over the americans now after after the um the students took the

00:57:55.600 americans hostage it was at that point that khomeini um the leader of the islamic republic

00:58:02.500 decided to take advantage of the situation and try to use the hostages as a bargaining chip in

00:58:09.600 order to convince jimmy carter to to you know bring the shah back to iran and do like some sort

00:58:15.000 hostage exchange thankfully the shah and his family and his advisors were smart enough um

00:58:21.400 and they basically you know left the united states before jimmy carter could um agree to that because

00:58:27.240 i have a feeling jimmy carter probably would have agreed to that because jimmy carter is a traitor

00:58:31.640 um and an evil evil man and also an idiot um so you know after the hostage the american hostages

00:58:38.040 were taken um the islamists did try to use that as a bargaining chip but you know luckily you

00:58:43.720 you know, thank God the Shah and his family left Iran before that became, left America before that

00:58:49.400 became a possibility. Stopped. They were led by the French lawyer, Christian Bourquet.

00:58:58.840 In mid-February, he set up a secret meeting in Paris with the Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister

00:59:04.140 and President Carter's White House Chief of Staff.

00:59:07.160 Hamilton Jordan arrived in the French capital under an alias

00:59:12.700 and wearing a wig and moustache

00:59:14.900 As for Sadek Gobzadeh, he was in France on official business

00:59:21.800 The two men met very discreetly for dinner at a hotel

00:59:26.040 Sadek Gobzadeh began their one-to-one discussion by expressing his concern

00:59:34.500 if the communists in iran find out about this meeting i'll lose my job and possibly my head

00:59:41.360 he reassured hamilton jordan that the hostages were doing well and that he had a plan to get

00:59:47.980 them released he believed that the iranian people's anger and the hostage shaking

00:59:53.200 were due to the united states domination over iran for the past 30 years

00:59:58.220 But what domination? There was no U.S. domination over Iran.

01:00:03.800 Again, that's like the Islamist jihadi narrative that the communists, right, the anti-imperialists were pushing.

01:00:13.020 The American replied that it was time to look forward to the future and stressed that President Carter was not an interventionist,

01:00:20.700 despite pressure from numerous Americans who were calling for military action.

01:00:24.760 gobsideh wanted new relations with the united states hamilton jordan seized the opportunity

01:00:31.800 to slide him a note about how soviet troops were amassing along the iranian borders

01:00:37.000 and told him there was an imminent threat during this crisis there was a major event

01:00:45.000 that could have overshadowed the crisis itself and that was the invasion of afghanistan

01:00:54.760 It was a question of whether this hostage-taking

01:00:57.520 by the Iranians would lead to a major confrontation

01:01:01.120 between the two superpowers.

01:01:05.640 So Mr. Jimmy Carter had more things to think about.

01:01:13.560 Soviet tanks had closed in on Iran.

01:01:17.840 In late 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan

01:01:22.020 to come to the aid of an allied government

01:01:24.220 threatened by an islamist uprising secretly backed by the americans

01:01:31.340 in the midst of the cold war the white house feared a disaster scenario

01:01:37.100 the invasion of tehran by the soviets who now had two routes to enter iran by the northern border

01:01:44.780 guys so so do you see this this is what i was talking about so in my other um in the other

01:01:50.460 live streams where we go over other documentaries so do you see the ussr so when i say the ussr

01:01:56.140 shared a border with iran this is what i'm referring to so this is why the ussr had a lot

01:02:02.620 of russian influence within um iran and that's why the communists had a lot of power in iran

01:02:08.700 because the ussr was constantly trying to turn iran um into another proxy and they were trying

01:02:16.300 desperately to get iran to fall you know behind the the iron curtain um just like you know they

01:02:22.300 had done with afghanistan of course the shah was one of the main reasons why iran did not um

01:02:30.140 become part of the ussr that's why the communists were um you know so against the shah because the

01:02:37.820 communists you know the the tudy party was actually created in moscow and all of these

01:02:43.180 communists were funded by the Soviets and their whole purpose for being there was to get rid of

01:02:49.820 the Shah take over Iran and then have Iran join the USSR so so this is where that you know heavy

01:02:57.900 Marxist socialist communist influence comes from guys on the eastern border the CIA issued extremely

01:03:05.740 alarming reports they noted that Soviet troops had amassed at the Iranian borders and that the

01:03:11.980 Iranian communists and the left had gained ground.

01:03:17.420 Why did the Iranian communists and Marxists and leftists gain ground?

01:03:21.580 Because they were being funded by the Soviets. The 1979 Islamic revolution was essentially

01:03:27.340 funded by the Soviets and Jimmy Carter was a useless idiot for the Russians because he thought

01:03:36.060 that Khomeini would somehow not be a communist or support communism.

01:03:43.260 The Americans wondered whether dealing with Khomeini wouldn't be better

01:03:46.540 than watching a communist government take over Tehran.

01:03:51.260 He just said it, except for the fact that Khomeini and all of those Islamists were actually

01:03:57.660 trained and funded by the Soviets as well, just like Yasser Arafat and the PLO were trained and

01:04:03.500 funded by the soviets actually one of our problems was that we had no insight into the

01:04:13.180 workings of the iranian government we had no way of influencing their decisions we were

01:04:22.140 dealing very much alone against an unknown antagonist yeah antagonists that you guys

01:04:31.900 brought in you guys supported them over the shah right like the documentary completely um ignores

01:04:41.020 the fact that it was jimmy carter's policies that brought in the islamic republic so um you're not

01:04:46.700 getting the full picture here with this part because um they're making it seem as if they

01:04:51.500 had nothing to do with the 1979 islamic revolution jimmy carter played a big role um in supporting

01:04:57.180 the islamists so i mean this this was a mistake of their own doing basically this was one of the

01:05:02.060 biggest failures of the carter administration let me tell you that the most important element

01:05:07.740 in the united states of america's policy regarding iran was a lack of visibility

01:05:14.060 they had no idea of how to analyze the political situation inside iran it was beyond their control

01:05:19.900 The extradition of the Shah that the Iranians were hoping for didn't happen.

01:05:26.760 On March the 24th, 1980, the Shah left Panama to seek refuge in Egypt.

01:05:33.080 His friend Anwar Sadat was in charge.

01:05:36.860 Christian Bourguet was disappointed, but still hoped to negotiate a solution with the Americans.

01:05:42.320 On the way to Tehran from Panama, the French lawyer stopped in Washington to meet with Hamilton Jordan,

01:05:48.000 who had a surprise for him, a meeting with Jimmy Carter.

01:05:57.000 Christian Bourguet was impressed.

01:05:59.000 He wanted to show the American president

01:06:00.760 the positive aspects of the situation.

01:06:05.040 He thought the Shars leaving Panama

01:06:07.120 might satisfy the Iranians.

01:06:09.960 If he was fleeing justice,

01:06:11.560 it was because he'd committed crimes.

01:06:14.160 Regarding the ongoing hostage negotiations,

01:06:16.680 he tried to reassure Carter and told him progress was being made.

01:06:21.040 Jimmy Carter replied angrily,

01:06:23.320 I don't see the slightest indication of progress.

01:06:26.280 We're exactly where we were four months ago.

01:06:28.980 The hostages are suffering every day.

01:06:31.520 Our patience is starting to look like weakness.

01:06:34.640 Something needs to change.

01:06:37.240 We had no reliable contacts.

01:06:41.220 The people who would talk to us had no authority.

01:06:44.260 The people who had authority wouldn't talk to us.

01:06:46.680 What was particularly impressive was how the entire collection of resolution strategies that they envisaged failed.

01:07:03.860 Iranians had been holding American citizens in captivity for 155 days.

01:07:10.120 The situation was unbearable for many Americans, who expressed their exasperation with protests.

01:07:16.680 The American president couldn't turn a deaf ear to the anger rumbling across the country,

01:07:22.100 especially given that he was running for re-election in the upcoming presidential election

01:07:26.640 that would take place in just a few months.

01:07:30.220 On April 7th, Jimmy Carter finally decided to make some serious decisions.

01:07:35.600 While traveling aboard his presidential plane, Air Force One,

01:07:39.200 he wrote down the measures that he planned to announce to the American people,

01:07:42.580 including a total embargo in Iran and the end of all diplomatic relations.

01:07:48.540 He also decided to step up preparations for a military operation.

01:07:53.800 Jimmy Carter asked Hamilton Jordan, his chief of staff,

01:07:57.120 to once again meet with Sadek Gobsideh, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs,

01:08:01.560 to find out what the Iranians might know about the rescue mission that was in the planning stages.

01:08:07.820 A second top-secret meeting was set up again in Paris.

01:08:11.760 The Iranian minister did not agree with Carter's decisions to implement an embargo

01:08:16.060 and sever diplomatic relations.

01:08:19.120 He then warned Hamilton Jordan,

01:08:21.340 I hope your president won't do anything reckless like attacking my country.

01:08:26.080 The American replied that no such thing would happen.

01:08:30.280 Gobzadeh didn't know that this meeting was part of an American disinformation campaign

01:08:34.400 to make the Iranians think that they still preferred negotiations.

01:08:38.220 Gobzadeh did not reassure Jordan on the fate of the hostages.

01:08:44.180 He thought they'd continue to remain in captivity for months before being able to go home because

01:08:49.280 the situation in Iran was very tense.

01:08:52.880 There was no longer any hesitation about the rescue mission.

01:08:56.360 On April the 20th, the countdown to the military operation began.

01:09:00.720 Zbigniew Brzezinski, the US national security adviser who'd recommended such action be taken

01:09:05.940 at the beginning of the hostage crisis, saw his suggestion finally come to fruition.

01:09:12.260 Operation Eagle Claw began off the coast of Iran during the night out over the Arabian

01:09:17.100 Sea.

01:09:18.220 To improve security, the Pentagon strategist had planned for the operation to last all

01:09:22.480 weekend, which for the Iranians was Thursday, April the 24th, and Friday, April the 25th.

01:09:29.000 Eight helicopters took off from the USS Nimitz, an aircraft carrier,

01:09:33.520 and six C-130 Hercules jets took off from the American base on Masira Island.

01:09:40.000 120 men were aboard these aircraft, which flew at low altitude at night

01:09:44.340 to a place dubbed Desert One in the Iranian desert, about 300 kilometers from Tehran.

01:09:50.540 The operation also required helicopters that transported stormtroopers to a base closer to Tehran

01:09:56.280 and trucks that took them to the occupied American embassy.

01:10:01.260 The scenario didn't go as planned.

01:10:04.600 Several accidents occurred while conducting the mission,

01:10:07.720 including the fatal crash of a helicopter

01:10:09.640 and a refueling jet at Desert One.

01:10:15.920 Impossible to continue the operation.

01:10:18.800 The order was given to abandon the mission.

01:10:21.380 the americans left behind eight soldiers who perished in the fire

01:10:29.300 president carter tried a military operation which was frankly very dangerous and very difficult

01:10:39.540 i don't know what would have been possible that would have gotten had all of us kept all of us

01:10:47.940 safe and gotten out got us out alive not very many other people subscribed to that accident

01:10:55.060 because we had seen that the iranians could be quite ruthless and would have no hesitancy

01:11:02.580 in gunning down so again he's not referring to like iranians they're referring to the islamists

01:11:09.460 right like the jihadis who took over iran in 1979 i wish they would make that distinction more

01:11:15.380 because they're making it sound as if like all uranians are like that where it's literally the

01:11:19.460 farthest thing from the truth um our country is under occupation by these islamic savages

01:11:26.580 um that took over in 1979 along with the soviet funded communists by the way right as as documentary

01:11:33.220 correctly mentioned um the islamists gained power with the control of soviet money um and the soviet

01:11:40.340 you know backed communists in iran their enemies if they thought it served their interests

01:11:48.580 the u.s secretary of state cyrus vance who had always been opposed and and guys just i want to

01:11:55.060 i want to point out that difference here because um right now there are communists and islamists

01:12:02.180 in your countries who are slowly starting to take over and so they are importing their jihadi

01:12:08.900 um islamo-fascist ideology with them into your countries right so you have to understand

01:12:16.340 the problem and you have to be able to identify the source of the problem

01:12:20.740 if you want to fight it close to any military action resigned a tough blow to jimmy carter

01:12:28.020 who lost an important member of his staff and a friend once the failed operation was no longer a

01:12:35.620 secret the american president asked all his advisors to let their iranian contacts know

01:12:40.740 that the united states had no intention of invading their country his top concern was

01:12:47.300 saving the lives of the hostages the following day he met with his military generals to debrief

01:12:54.260 the mission the meeting of april the 26th was an uncomfortable situation for president carter

01:13:01.860 He was pushed to take military action by certain members of his staff,

01:13:05.440 but he was forced to deal with its failure alone.

01:13:09.160 He even got lectured by the military brass, who criticised his leadership.

01:13:16.100 Disconcerted, Carter didn't discuss the criticism.

01:13:19.720 No one wanted to dwell on the failure of the operation.

01:13:23.180 The president steered the discussion to a new rescue mission.

01:13:27.700 Once again, the discussions got out of hand.

01:13:30.640 The craziest of options were brought up, including a large-scale invasion of Iran.

01:13:36.400 Frustrated and weakened, the president ended the chaotic meeting.

01:13:40.960 It was completely devoid of military introspection,

01:13:44.080 and no decision was made on how to move forward.

01:13:49.360 No field analysis would have come with or given such a plan a probability rate of

01:13:55.280 one in a thousand. A rescue operation in the heart of Tehran during a

01:14:04.280 revolutionary uprising carried out by a few commandos and helicopters that

01:14:09.440 would land in the desert a few hundred kilometers away. At that point there

01:14:16.640 were hundreds on average, 200 armed students at the embassy ready to defend

01:14:21.860 the occupation at all costs the embassy do you see like that's all it was it was it was 200

01:14:32.100 university students that's it that that's all it took it took 200 university armed university

01:14:39.220 students to hold americans hostage for 444 days so all these university students right now in america

01:14:48.580 who are out there burning the flag of america and yelling like free ballastine and you know

01:14:53.460 globalize the intifada um you have to take that threat seriously guys because it always starts

01:14:59.300 with the university students that's where they go to indoctrinate that's where they go to promote

01:15:05.300 you know islamic terrorism that's exactly what they did in iran right it was a mix of communism

01:15:11.380 and and islamism and now you're seeing the exact same thing in american universities guys wake up

01:15:18.580 wake up like um what happened in iran in 1979 could very well happen in your countries if you

01:15:25.140 don't pay attention and you nip it in the bud self was very big we didn't know where the hostages

01:15:34.500 might be they were absolutely not being held all together hermene's followers thought that

01:15:44.340 the hand of god caused the operation to fail iran which piously followed the principles of islam was

01:15:50.900 protected okay the islamic republic overtook iran in 1979 that's when you know they started piously

01:16:04.180 following islam prior to 1979 iran was a normal secular modern western country and then it was

01:16:12.900 these clerics who overnight when they gained control of iran took the country back 1400 years

01:16:20.340 to the seventh century and imposed sharia law on everyone the ayatollah who carried out the regime's

01:16:27.780 dirty work had the charred bodies of the american soldiers put on display for the press

01:16:34.980 after this propaganda stunt the bodies were handed over to the swiss embassy

01:16:39.220 which represented american interests in iran does that doesn't that remind you like guys

01:16:48.100 that's exactly what like hamas terrorists did um where they were like you know when they were like

01:16:54.660 uh holding like that that murdered baby parade right like like this is what islamic terrorists

01:17:00.180 do they um they revel in hostage taking and murdering and then you know showing corpses

01:17:08.020 um of of murdered people right like that that's the seventh century islamic savage you know

01:17:17.060 barbarity that these people have whether it's you know the islamists in iran or whether it's like

01:17:22.500 hamas in in in gaza right it's the same mentality it's the same behavior it's the same ideology

01:17:29.940 doesn't matter if it's 1979 or if it's 2025. This embassy took possession of the bodies,

01:17:38.100 which obviously had great significance for the Iranians. So it was a bit difficult to convince

01:17:44.180 them that they nevertheless had to be taken away so they could be brought back to the United States.

01:17:52.740 Khomeini emerged strengthened by the failed military operation,

01:17:55.940 But he still needed to share power.

01:17:58.940 His former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bani Sadar,

01:18:02.940 had been elected President of the Republic,

01:18:04.940 winning a solid majority of 76% of votes.

01:18:10.940 Although he was very popular,

01:18:12.940 he struggled to exert his authority before Khomeini.

01:18:15.940 He would have to wait a long time for the green light

01:18:18.940 before forming his administration.

01:18:21.940 He also had no power over the hostage-takers,

01:18:24.940 takers who only obeyed Khamenei. President Bani Sadar would not even be informed of the transfer

01:18:32.980 of the Americans to various cities in the country, nor did he know where they were being held.

01:18:39.080 One night they came and said, pack up your things, whatever you have,

01:18:44.440 we're moving you. And we're moving you a distance, not just from one room.

01:18:50.080 Yeah, you know what? This is a good point Gandalf that you make. I want to share this. So I usually

01:18:54.240 share starred messages but this is a really good point so um those islamic clerics like

01:18:59.840 and others the ones who were parading the bodies of american soldiers they're the same people who

01:19:06.560 signed the execution of hundreds if not thousands of iranian officers pilots ministers university

01:19:15.840 professors right so um what they did to the americans was like a tiny fraction of what was

01:19:24.960 currently going on um in occupied iran with actual iranians like these are bloodthirsty evil demons

01:19:34.000 right um yeah like like just horrible horrible people literal like literal islamic terrorists

01:19:41.680 to another but it's going to be a it's going to be a long trip a long trip um so i ended up

01:19:51.760 in esfahan uh in the city of esfahan about seven hours south of tehran

01:20:00.240 three students since the hostages and ourselves might be in oh again look the nazi is speaking

01:20:06.560 again real danger so we immediately decided to split up and move the hostages to different regions

01:20:19.680 in iran we did this to prevent any military interventions and terrorists and guerrilla

01:20:26.880 operations where is where is this guy and why is he speaking so casually about the fact that he took

01:20:36.680 all these american hostages like should he not be in jail am i missing something here like should

01:20:41.860 he not be in jail this is insane like he's just casually speaking about how um you know he took

01:20:50.400 americans hostage as a university student as if it's like the most normal thing in the world

01:20:54.800 But again, for these Islamic terrorists, hostage-taking is normal.

01:20:59.040 It's part of their, you know, Islamic jihad.

01:21:04.980 They split them up and moved them to places all across Iranian soil.

01:21:11.920 And no one knew where they were.

01:21:15.240 The CIA was unable to locate the hostages, well, most of the hostages, right up until the end of the crisis.

01:21:24.800 The failed American military operation was an unexpected opportunity for

01:21:30.560 Khmerni, who didn't want to come out a loser in the legislative elections as he had done

01:21:35.600 in the presidential election. The firm stance he took with the White House enabled him to

01:21:44.160 appear to be the only one capable of getting the American superpower to give in.

01:21:48.000 in early may his supporters easily carried the vote in the first majlis elections

01:21:55.040 you realize guys like so for non-iranians like for us as iranians watching this sort of footage

01:22:01.440 um this is this is like watching like nazi germany right like i feel like i'm

01:22:06.640 you know it's like the equivalent of i don't know watching like hitler and his people right

01:22:12.800 it's just it's like you know nightmare fuel the parliament of the islamic republic

01:22:20.880 you know like like when they say the parliament of the islamic republic it's like saying the

01:22:28.900 parliament of nazi germany right like that's the equivalent of basically what it is it's

01:22:33.580 like a whole bunch of like um islamic terrorist war criminals and the entire left was eliminated

01:22:41.080 oh there we go there we go guys so this is important so again the communist leftist

01:22:48.040 progressives who helped the islamists get to power once the islamists came to power guess

01:22:52.800 what they did they eliminated all the lefties including the communists by the way including

01:22:57.340 the same savage communists who helped the islamists get into power they were eliminated

01:23:01.900 too pay attention to this part to give in in early may his supporters easily carried the vote

01:23:09.460 in the first Majlis elections, the Parliament of the Islamic Republic.

01:23:15.720 Bani Sada's friends were now the minority, and the entire left was eliminated.

01:23:23.380 For at least the first eight or nine months, we were useful.

01:23:29.540 I also find it wild that history has already shown what happens when the left supports Islamists,

01:23:37.400 and yet it's today 2025 and you still have the woke progressive left who are supporting

01:23:43.960 the islamic terrorists not knowing that as soon as the islamic terrorists get into power

01:23:49.000 they're going to go after the left and eliminate them just like what happened in iran in 1979

01:23:55.000 to create hysteria and to mobilize support for the most extreme hardline factions

01:24:07.400 in Iranian politics.

01:24:12.820 As a politician during the revolution,

01:24:16.000 the Ayatollah Khomeini

01:24:17.200 exploited and used the hostage crisis

01:24:20.240 as a means to eliminate

01:24:21.660 all his adversaries.

01:24:24.420 I mean, this guy's like another jihadi.

01:24:26.200 He was an advisor to Benesad.

01:24:28.200 So it's like all these

01:24:28.900 Islamists and communists

01:24:32.600 are here

01:24:34.680 being interviewed

01:24:36.960 as if it's the most like normal thing ever and they're just so casual about it too like this is

01:24:43.140 horrifying and build no only he and his personal cabinet controlled everything

01:24:50.580 in mid-may 1980 the elections in iran were over but the hostages were still locked up

01:25:01.080 and had been rotting away for 200 days.

01:25:04.500 In the United States, the presidential campaign was in full swing.

01:25:09.540 Jimmy Carter tried to put on a happy face during his speeches

01:25:12.320 as he campaigned for re-election,

01:25:14.780 but he had no control over what was going on.

01:25:18.460 His Western allies supported him half-heartedly.

01:25:22.000 None of them wanted a confrontation with the Iranians.

01:25:25.900 His longtime ally came to his rescue.

01:25:29.240 the german chancellor helmut schmidt wanted to help him find a way to negotiate

01:25:34.920 in agreement with jimmy carter he reached out to the president of algeria chadly benjedid

01:25:41.000 during a meeting he discreetly said it's up to you algerians to help the world by preventing

01:25:46.680 the conflict between iran and the united states from getting worse the germans like the swiss

01:25:53.640 not only informed us, but also asked that the United States

01:25:58.640 really insisted that they agreed to Algerian mediation,

01:26:03.640 because everyone saw that Algeria was, at that time,

01:26:08.640 and in those circumstances, the country with the best chance

01:26:14.640 of successfully freeing the hostages.

01:26:19.640 There are Muslims in Algeria.

01:26:23.680 In the eyes of Imam Khomeini and Iranian revolutionary leaders, the Algerian war was

01:26:29.500 held in high respect.

01:26:32.580 No such trust existed with the Swiss, the Swedish, the UN, or the Germans.

01:26:37.640 But with the Algerians, it did.

01:26:42.200 The Algerians were invited.

01:26:48.120 The modern left and North America are the result of Yuri Besbinov's explanation.

01:26:54.560 They not only know nothing, but they don't want actual information.

01:26:59.220 100% major.

01:27:01.420 I have played, you actually recommended playing Yuri's 15-minute clip.

01:27:07.240 So I did play that before.

01:27:08.920 if we have time maybe i'll actually um play that again at the end of this documentary because that

01:27:15.940 um you know he does give a very very good explanation of how the soviets are infiltrating

01:27:22.740 um and you know he he refers specifically to the united states but you know it's the same playbook

01:27:29.340 in other countries so what he's saying um about the united states what is 100 applicable to

01:27:35.400 what they did in Iran as well.

01:27:38.220 But no, that's an excellent comment,

01:27:39.920 and I encourage everyone to look him up

01:27:43.180 and look up his documentaries

01:27:44.300 or look up his interviews on YouTube.

01:27:48.800 Help us out.

01:27:50.400 And they refused.

01:27:52.080 They said regularly when we approached them

01:27:55.340 that it was not the right moment.

01:27:59.000 The diplomat with the best understanding

01:28:01.220 of the Iranian situation

01:28:02.500 was Algeria's ambassador in Tehran.

01:28:05.400 Abdelkrim Hiraib, he had long been in close privileged contact with Khomeini's entourage.

01:28:12.280 He advised his Swiss counterpart, who had been representing American interests since

01:28:16.440 the occupation of the embassy. If you want to successfully resolve the problems in Iran,

01:28:22.440 forget about traditional diplomatic avenues. Algeria's ambassador knew that real negotiations

01:28:29.240 wouldn't be possible until khamenei had decided it was time khamenei was in no rush to negotiate

01:28:36.360 he wanted to throw his weight into the american presidential election

01:28:40.200 and prevent jimmy carter from being re-elected he had hated him with a passion since he

01:28:46.840 that's so funny so not only did jimmy carter back the ayatollah and help the evil demonic

01:28:53.640 ayatollah get into power but but the the ayatollah is now repaying jimmy carter by not only taking

01:28:59.960 american hostages but now he wants to literally engage in american election interference to

01:29:05.480 prevent jimmy carter from getting re-elected like do you see how these islamists are guys

01:29:09.880 like you cannot negotiate with them um you cannot work with them you cannot do anything with them

01:29:15.240 because they don't um they will never respect you right and the more you try to appease them

01:29:22.120 the more they will literally try to come after you let's let's let's um play this part again

01:29:28.360 because traditional diplomatic avenues like and it's wild to me that western politicians

01:29:35.960 don't know this or don't understand this or maybe they simply just don't care like i think

01:29:42.680 i think what happened um to iran in 1979 should be mandatory training for all western politicians in

01:29:51.320 in order to understand how Islamic terrorists think.

01:29:55.460 Because once you understand how they think,

01:29:57.720 it's much easier to identify them in your own countries.

01:30:03.800 Algieri's ambassador knew that real negotiations

01:30:06.620 wouldn't be possible until Khomeini had decided it was time.

01:30:10.920 Khomeini was in no rush to negotiate.

01:30:13.820 He wanted to throw his weight

01:30:15.120 into the American presidential election

01:30:17.700 and prevent Jimmy Carter from being re-elected.

01:30:21.040 had hated him with a passion since he had backed the shah during the popular revolt

01:30:27.920 what jimmy carter did not back the shah during the islamic revolution that is a flat-out lie

01:30:36.640 that is that is 100 revisionist i have no idea where that is coming from that's the

01:30:42.560 first time i'm hearing this jimmy carter backed the ayatollah it is a well-known fact

01:30:51.040 And I'm actually very confused by that statement that this documentary just made, because Jimmy Carter supported the Ayatollah.

01:31:03.220 I mean, I can only imagine that the documentary is saying this because maybe they're trying to find some way to justify why the Ayatollahs stabbed Jimmy Carter in the back.

01:31:21.040 But again, like, unless you understand how these Islamic jihadis think, you're not going to, you're not going to understand why they do certain things. So, so you cannot, you cannot assume that they are rational, logical actors.

01:31:38.040 um so they're probably just maybe they think jimmy carter backed the shop but that's literally the

01:31:44.360 i mean it's it's well-known common knowledge it is an established fact that jimmy carter

01:31:52.360 backed the ayatollah um even even richard nixon speaks about that right like everyone knows that

01:32:00.840 So, um, this doc, this documentary is engaging in revisionism and that is an incredibly bold

01:32:09.240 statement to make with no, with no, uh, facts to back it up. That is incredibly bizarre. So

01:32:19.060 like that, um, that's not like, that's not an insignificant fact, guys. That is a major,

01:32:24.740 major facts that they are saying completely wrong. It's the complete opposite.

01:32:37.480 Like a puppet master manipulating his primary players, this time Khomeini called upon the

01:32:43.400 newly elected parliamentary representatives to take charge of the hostage affair.

01:32:48.720 He wanted to drag out this crisis because parliament was already bogged down with clan wars

01:32:54.440 and unending procedures.

01:33:01.720 In my own case, being a representative,

01:33:05.540 they took three months to give me my credentials

01:33:07.880 because I was accused of complicity with the United States.

01:33:13.020 At that point, I can tell you that the pro-American,

01:33:17.240 Western vermin label was getting stuck on anyone

01:33:21.400 and everyone in power that they wanted to eliminate.

01:33:28.020 Imam Khomeini considered our action as ultimately

01:33:31.300 an action carried out by the people.

01:33:34.420 And so it was up to the representatives of the people

01:33:37.040 to decide how to end this affair.

01:33:41.940 Freeing the hostages was still not on the agenda in Parliament.

01:33:46.820 Talks about forming an administration would last several months.

01:33:51.400 After unending face-offs between Khomeini supporters

01:33:54.520 and those backing President Banisada,

01:33:57.400 a government administration was finally named in late August of 1980.

01:34:02.300 And in its top position was Muhammad Ali Rajai, an opponent of Banisada.

01:34:09.440 The president was thus removed from all important affairs.

01:34:16.460 Sadeh Gobzadeh, the man who'd been secretly negotiating with the Americans,

01:34:20.120 was not a member of the new government.

01:34:23.580 He had lost the support of his mentor, Khomeini.

01:34:27.580 Following a long fall from grace,

01:34:29.740 he would be accused of plotting a coup d'etat and executed.

01:34:36.080 While Iranian authorities fought their battles

01:34:38.460 amongst themselves for months on end,

01:34:40.920 the American hostages were still being held in captivity.

01:34:44.500 I mean, I would say that I would feel bad

01:34:46.460 for these people being executed, but I have zero sympathy.

01:34:48.880 i have zero sympathy for um the fact that they were literally um murdering each other um it's

01:34:55.120 just basically terrorist infighting right so guys like um don't assume that there's a good side and

01:35:01.360 a bad side here right like everyone you see who's involved in the american hostage crisis

01:35:06.560 um they're all bad right the only good side was the shah um who you know is is out of the picture

01:35:13.840 right now because this is you know referring specifically to the 1979 um 1980 uh hostage

01:35:21.040 crisis right so every single person that they're talking about here all of these islamic jihadis

01:35:27.440 they're all bad so i mean just because one of them was like executed whatever like he had it coming

01:35:34.240 um they're they're all horrible people like this is literally like watching like nazis infighting

01:35:39.280 right like infighting between nazis so in undisclosed locations

01:35:48.480 the destiny of the presidency of the republic of parliament and of the future regime was taken

01:35:55.120 hostage the solution came when the president of the republic had already been relegated

01:36:02.640 to ceremonial flower boy

01:36:07.920 hermeney eliminated all the obstacles before him the theocratic regime he now led was firmly in

01:36:14.640 place he had gained complete control of parliament and the government the threat of the shah did you

01:36:22.080 hear that so um he gained complete control where was it okay he had gained complete

01:36:32.240 control of the government and the parliament so again everything that they accused the shah of

01:36:38.960 right like they they claimed the shah was um you know like a dictator or whatever he was actually

01:36:46.560 a modern progressive who was modernizing um a secular iran and the shah gave women the right

01:36:51.600 to vote it was the you know everything they accused him of they are guilty of right because

01:36:57.120 it was them like it was it was this evil demonic man who turned iran into a seventh century islamic

01:37:04.400 dictatorship right they just said he he gained control of everything right and he imposed sharia

01:37:11.840 law on everything so like these evil demons lied their way into power by creating a false narrative

01:37:21.920 against the Shah of Iran with absolutely nothing to back it up and yet they are the ones who are

01:37:28.480 the evil demonic savages. He eliminated everyone who said no to him right so there you go all the

01:37:39.780 communists leftists whoever progressives gone all the anti-imperialists right like the the woke left

01:37:46.080 that supported this evil man all of them eliminated all of them gone and then he consolidated power

01:37:51.680 or like the savage 7th century authoritarian Islamic dictator that he is.

01:37:57.740 The theocratic regime he now led was firmly in place.

01:38:02.060 He had gained complete control of parliament and the government.

01:38:05.980 The threat of the Shah returning to power was finally laid to rest once and for all

01:38:10.440 when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi died on July the 27th in a hospital in Cairo following his battle with cancer.

01:38:17.720 Khomeini had exploited the hostage crisis as much as he possibly could, but he didn't

01:38:24.600 want to release the hostages without getting something in return from the Americans.

01:38:29.840 While Parliament was squabbling over the fate of the hostages, he authorized a member of

01:38:34.180 his family, Sadeq Tabatabai, to contact the Americans and let them know he was finally

01:38:39.720 ready to negotiate.

01:38:43.760 With intermediary help from German diplomacy, Sadegh Tabatabai succeeded in establishing

01:38:49.740 indirect but nonetheless concrete contact between the Khomeini regime and the Americans.

01:38:57.760 And they came to a conclusion.

01:39:00.820 Mr Khomeini must make certain statements so that the Americans can be sure that Sadegh

01:39:06.900 Tabatabai is truly representing Khomeini's wishes.

01:39:13.320 In the middle of a message to pilgrims starting their pilgrimage to Mecca in a newspaper on

01:39:18.360 September 13, 1980, Khomeini slips in the demands he wants to impose on the White House.

01:39:25.520 Return the Shah's assets to Iran, lift the sanctions on Iran, guarantee no political

01:39:30.980 or military interventions, and lastly, unfreeze Iranian assets held by the United States.

01:39:39.200 Jimmy Carter finally knows he can negotiate on the basis of these four demands.

01:39:44.680 He sends his deputy secretary of state, Warren Christopher, to Germany

01:39:49.020 to meet with the chancellor, Helmut Schmidt.

01:39:53.580 The Germans set up two meetings for the American with Khomeini's emissary,

01:39:58.480 Sadeg Tabatabai, on the 16th and 18th of September, outside of Bonn.

01:40:04.040 The initial discussions seemed promising,

01:40:06.480 but the two men wouldn't meet again

01:40:10.400 on september the 22nd saddam hussein's iraq invades iran

01:40:17.360 the war put in and what they don't mention is that um guess who joined the iraqis

01:40:28.160 when saddam started the war against iran the palestinians right the palestinians decided to

01:40:34.700 join the Iraqi army because they're literally the mercenaries of the Middle East. They go wherever

01:40:40.640 there is war and violence and conflict and jihad. I hold absolutely no ill will against the Iraqis

01:40:46.960 for the Iran-Iraq war. Stuff like this happens. And when you're a soldier and the leader of your

01:40:53.260 country declares war, you go to war, right? The Iraqi army has no choice. But where I do hold

01:41:00.140 ill will and where i do take it personally is what the balistinians because the fake balistinians

01:41:05.420 and their fake balistinian flag they had absolutely zero reason to go to iraq and join the iraqi army

01:41:13.260 but because they're a bunch of like literally like savage jihadi islamic terrorists right they're

01:41:18.700 known as the mercenaries of the middle east so they saw an opportunity to murder iranians so they

01:41:24.060 went and they joined the iraqi army and murdered iranians so but no one ever talks about that fact

01:41:29.980 right? No one ever talks about the mercenaries of the Middle East. And then these are the same

01:41:34.220 like jihadi savages who expect the rest of us to like, you know, feel for them and have sympathy

01:41:39.780 for their fake Palestinian cause and their fake country. Into all contact between the White House

01:41:45.020 and Khomeini's entourage. The Iranians weren't gullible. They knew the Iraqi dictator had

01:41:54.560 received the green light from the United States to start a bloody war.

01:41:59.980 The Iraqis wanted to annex territories and the Americans hoped it would result in a weakened Khomeini-run Iran

01:42:11.740 It was immediately seen as a way to quickly resolve the crisis with a simple postulate

01:42:22.060 Under attack from the exterior

01:42:24.060 the iranians would have to abandon the conflict with the americans from which they'd already

01:42:31.660 exploited all possible beneficial aspects in the united states november the fourth 1980

01:42:41.740 marked one year to the day that the hostages had been held captive in iran but this anniversary

01:42:47.500 was overshadowed by another event the republican ronald reagan had been elected president and that

01:42:53.660 That was the top story on news stations all across America.

01:42:57.220 In less than three months, he'd take over in the White House, ending the Democrat Carter's

01:43:01.840 presidency.

01:43:02.840 While Khomeini was pleased with Carter's defeat, Reagan's election was not without

01:43:06.620 danger for him.

01:43:07.900 During his election campaign, Reagan had mentioned military action against Iran.

01:43:15.000 The master timekeeper knew he had little time left to settle the hostage affair.

01:43:21.180 was finally called in to lead the negotiations with the americans the islamic republic had no

01:43:29.660 alternative the iranian authorities knew that reagan wasn't like this guy's another like islamist

01:43:36.940 right right like he's um you know the fact that he's like a professor at the university of tehran

01:43:43.340 the guy's literally like an islamist so he's he's he's a nazi he's a nazi he's he's one of the bad

01:43:48.620 harder. Republicans weren't like Democrats. They knew that Reagan wouldn't take a seat at the

01:43:55.580 negotiation table. Therefore, they were afraid that once he was in office, he would launch an

01:44:02.840 attack on Iran. Day after day, the eyes of the American people were fixated on the number of

01:44:09.140 days their fellow citizens had been held in captivity. On day 372, finally, a glimmer of

01:44:15.980 hope that they'd soon be released, reappeared.

01:44:19.280 In early November 1980, the long-awaited negotiations

01:44:22.640 got underway in Algiers.

01:44:24.380 The Algerians took on the role of intermediary

01:44:26.860 in what would become a long marathon of talks

01:44:29.000 and bargaining, of compromises and coercion.

01:44:33.680 In the Algerian capital, Warren Christopher

01:44:36.320 and his advisors settle in, ready to try to hammer out

01:44:39.860 an agreement and intent on staying there until Jimmy

01:44:42.860 Carter's last day in office.

01:44:45.980 The Algerian negotiators, led by Mohammed Ben Yahia,

01:44:49.980 the Minister of Foreign Affairs,

01:44:51.980 quickly established a method of working.

01:44:54.980 They would have two sets of discussions.

01:44:57.980 One for discussions related to the political agreement,

01:45:00.980 and one for the more complex discussions related to the assets

01:45:04.980 belonging to the Shah and Iran that Iran wanted back.

01:45:07.980 Since the Iranians still wouldn't speak directly with the Americans,

01:45:11.980 the Algerian diplomats travelled back and forth

01:45:13.980 He travelled back and forth between Algiers and Tehran to inform each side of the other's position.

01:45:20.980 The Algerian negotiators would come to Iran, listen to our demands.

01:45:28.980 Another Nazi, right? Another Nazi.

01:45:33.980 I don't understand how these people are just casually speaking in this interview

01:45:38.980 they're like normal people and not like savage Islamic terrorists. It blows my mind.

01:45:44.580 And negotiate with us. They would also explain the demands of the Americans and convey our

01:45:51.140 suggestions and proposals to Algiers. And there they would negotiate with Warren Christopher

01:45:57.700 and the American team based in Algiers.

01:46:00.020 Algeria wasn't just a simple mailman whose job was to deliver Iran's position to the

01:46:13.880 United States and vice versa it was an active player that would invent solutions of its own

01:46:24.740 for both parties who would either accept them or discuss them and so on I think the first sign that

01:46:35.840 something positive was happening was around Christmas time of 1980 when we were visited by

01:46:48.100 um two or three algerian diplomats so i i told yeah you know gandalf you make a really good

01:46:58.180 point it seems as if like the islamic uh like the islamic regime like wanted this documentary to be

01:47:04.740 made because so far um the only justification they've given for um the islamists taking americans

01:47:14.820 hostage is that the americans were somehow involved in torturing iranians which is completely false

01:47:21.220 right like it's it's just 100 untrue and yet you know we're 44 minutes in we have about 11 more

01:47:29.300 minutes to go in this documentary and they still have not explained um the logic or reasoning behind

01:47:37.300 why these um you know islamist students and these communist students took americans hostage and why

01:47:45.540 the islamic republic was supporting this behavior they just like conveniently glossed over that fact

01:47:52.420 um and if anything they're they're almost making it sound as if like the americans deserve this

01:47:57.300 which is the farthest thing from the truth so i mean this is a um i'd be interested in knowing

01:48:04.340 who funded this documentary because the they're making it seem as if like america are the terrorists

01:48:11.540 but in fact it's the islamic republic that's the terrorist right um so it's it's it's a weird

01:48:18.980 narrative it's you know the the facts are mostly correct except for you know the part where they

01:48:25.140 said jimmy carter backed the shah which is a hundred percent false um the facts are mostly

01:48:31.940 correct but it's the sort of the um the opinions they like the editorial that's weird the editorial

01:48:39.780 that makes it incredibly bizarre here myself uh this is this is serious now something something

01:48:47.620 is going something is going on the fate of the hostages was hanging in the balance simultaneously

01:48:53.860 in algiers tehran and washington the algerian capital had become the hub through which both

01:48:59.940 Party's proposals and counter-proposals transited.

01:49:03.940 Both the Iranians and the Americans wanted to move quickly.

01:49:08.640 The political agreement was quickly reached.

01:49:11.180 The United States promised in writing

01:49:13.080 to respect a policy of non-intervention

01:49:15.720 in the Islamic Republic.

01:49:19.220 The US also guaranteed that no hostage

01:49:21.560 would seek compensation from Iran for the long months

01:49:24.460 of captivity.

01:49:26.300 Negotiating the financial agreement, however,

01:49:28.960 didn't go as smoothly.

01:49:32.920 President Carter signed a decree that froze the Shah's assets,

01:49:37.400 but he couldn't guarantee that funds held by private banks

01:49:40.560 would be sent back to Iran.

01:49:45.800 The Iranian negotiators used coercion

01:49:48.360 to show their people that they were standing up

01:49:50.480 to the American adversary.

01:49:58.960 If it's not, the Iranian negotiators knew that Khomeini wanted an agreement to be reached,

01:50:11.960 whatever the cost.

01:50:13.960 On January 14th, six days before Carter's term in office ended,

01:50:18.960 along with the negotiations,

01:50:20.960 Iran finally agreed to eventually take legal action in the courts

01:50:23.960 to attempt to get back the Shah's assets.

01:50:26.960 the two parties themselves would have to rely on an international tribunal to

01:50:31.840 settle their numerous trade-related grievances the Iranians and the

01:50:36.920 Americans still couldn't agree on how Iran's assets and debts should be

01:50:41.100 evaluated clearly Algeria had rather privileged relations with Iran but it

01:50:47.620 was a good opportunity to take advantage of that to get Iran to give in it's

01:50:53.820 It's quite possible that the Algerians wanted the crisis to end without their further involvement

01:51:01.760 in it, and that they supported what they considered to be a balanced approach to the negotiations.

01:51:15.320 The Algerian government fully executed its role as mediator, and never pressured the

01:51:20.500 Iranian government. If there was any pressure it was inside the country. I

01:51:29.180 remember during the negotiations I'd get two or three phone calls a week from

01:51:35.500 Ahmad Khomeini, Imam Khomeini's son, asking me on behalf of his father how the

01:51:44.080 negotiations were progressing he was very worried jimmy carter and his team were also worried

01:51:56.320 they saw the hours ticking by and they still hadn't reached a financial agreement

01:52:01.600 from algiers warren christopher kept the president abreast of every little bit of

01:52:05.280 progress being made in this last negotiation the american administration contested the

01:52:11.920 sums Iran was demanding. Before the fall of the Shah, the two countries had signed numerous

01:52:17.660 civil and military contracts together. Some of them were paid up front, before they were

01:52:22.540 even fulfilled. The Iranians wanted their money back. The Americans started calculating

01:52:27.740 how much debt Iran had racked up, which explained the financial imbroglio driving the American

01:52:33.160 president and his team carter was exhausted he hadn't slept in several days he was following

01:52:44.600 the negotiations minute by minute despite the carter carter was also um out of his depth

01:52:52.760 because he was an idiotic peanut farmer who did not have any understanding of um

01:52:59.960 what he actually did by supporting the Ayatollah over the Shah.

01:53:05.960 Time differences between Tehran, Algiers and Washington.

01:53:12.360 In Tehran, yet another crisis at the highest level of Iranian authority caused confusion.

01:53:18.120 Although President Banisada had been removed from the negotiation process by Khomeini,

01:53:22.680 he attempted to thwart an agreement. He disagreed with the concessions made to the Americans.

01:53:28.840 algeria proposed freezing funds for future arbitration

01:53:34.520 on january the 19th the day before carter's term in office came to an end the iranians finally

01:53:40.200 agreed with the amount of nearly eight billion dollars which had to be deposited into an account

01:53:45.480 managed by algeria at the bank of england to cover arbitration at a later date

01:53:50.520 Harold, the money is in the bank, the president's getting on now.

01:54:00.520 Hi, Bill. Hi, Bill. Let's hold on. Why the hell no? It's getting dark.

01:54:15.520 In Algiers, I talked to Chris about a half hour ago, and he said that they were checking

01:54:24.280 off each portion of money as it came in and comparing it with the list.

01:54:32.520 But then he told me then that in 15 minutes they should have the certification, so it's

01:54:37.300 15 minutes late.

01:54:39.340 On January 20th, at about 7.30 in the morning, Washington time, London and then Algiers

01:54:45.420 certified the total amount deposited by the American banks.

01:54:49.580 The Algerian negotiators immediately informed the Iranians.

01:54:54.980 Tehran also had to sign off on the agreement

01:54:57.060 to freeze the amount of nearly $8 billion.

01:55:04.880 President Carter's nightmare was still not over.

01:55:08.540 The Iranians were taking their time to sign.

01:55:10.840 having failed to secure the release of the hostages during his presidency

01:55:16.940 he attended the inauguration of his successor of the united states so help you god so help me god

01:55:24.000 at 12.05 p.m washington time nabavi signed the agreement why because at that precise moment

01:55:36.320 they were on neutral ground

01:55:39.520 between an outgoing president they hated

01:55:43.380 and wanted to slap one last time.

01:55:48.000 The Islamic Republic was never on neutral ground with America.

01:55:51.900 They literally, one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic

01:55:54.820 was calling America the great Satan

01:55:57.580 regardless of who was in power.

01:55:59.020 So that's a very uneducated and uninformed perspective

01:56:04.360 on the Islamic Republic's foreign policy with respect to America.

01:56:14.600 And an incoming president they didn't want to have to deal with.

01:56:21.140 When at last the 52 Americans were about to be released,

01:56:25.660 one last ordeal awaited them at the airport in Tehran

01:56:28.760 before they could board the Air Algeria plane

01:56:31.480 that had been parked on the runway for over 24 hours.

01:56:36.120 I heard noise, screams, insults that I could barely understand in Farsi,

01:56:46.360 aimed at the people being brought to the plane.

01:56:49.660 I wasn't afraid so much as I was just sad.

01:57:03.800 The actions of this group were so clumsy and so inept.

01:57:16.980 They entered the plane.

01:57:19.660 clearly in shock clearly disoriented at the same time they understood they were finally free

01:57:28.700 being on that plane unless something unexpected was going to happen we were we were out of there

01:57:35.340 what had changed that one remember um of the 14 months that i was in captivity in tehran nine

01:57:41.900 nine of those months i was in solitary confinement i once again explained who i was to those who

01:57:50.860 didn't know me because the swiss diplomats were asked to acknowledge the delivery of merchandise

01:57:59.180 whose let's not say contents but rather whose identity was unknown

01:58:06.140 so I got the idea to ask the flight attendant for a piece of paper and I

01:58:16.100 wrote down the numbers from 1 to 52 because the agreement was to release 52

01:58:25.520 hostages 52 former hostages who had to write down their names on a makeshift

01:58:32.060 list the swiss diplomat methodically made his way through the plane going from row to row

01:58:38.300 to get the name of each freed hostage he had to make a list that would be sent to the white house

01:58:44.220 as proof that all the americans had been freed when flavio moroni got to the back of the plane

01:58:51.580 he realized there was a problem line 52 was empty i'm missing one person

01:59:03.340 what do we do i wasn't ready to ignore the issue

01:59:09.020 finally looking at the list i noticed a hostage had signed below line 40 instead of on line 41

01:59:18.300 that hostage became 40 beasts and the plane was able to take off the plane carrying the 52

01:59:30.880 Americans left the runway at Tehran Airport about 30 minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in

01:59:36.660 destination Algiers during the flight the former hostages were both joyful and tense

01:59:47.400 only when the flight crew announced that they'd left Iranian airspace were they truly overjoyed

02:00:06.660 When they arrived in Algiers, the Americans willingly took part in an official welcome ceremony that Mohamed Ben Yahia, the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Warren Christopher, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, had organized.

02:00:27.280 They then flew to Germany for medical examinations, and then finally on to the United States.

02:00:33.480 In New York, a huge crowd cheered them on like heroes.

02:00:38.480 They went up Broadway with their families,

02:00:41.480 forgetting for a moment their ordeal in Iran.

02:00:47.480 Some of them would live from now on with scars

02:00:49.480 from the psychological torture they'd endured.

02:00:54.480 Others would try as best as possible

02:00:56.480 to move on from those 444 days

02:00:59.480 days that made a mark on their life and their country the united states has not forgotten the

02:01:06.280 humiliation they were subjected to a lasting trauma settled in with the americans who realized

02:01:12.440 their country was vulnerable as for the iranians they continue to suffer from the cult of the power

02:01:18.680 struggle with america that the current regime insistently glorifies to justify its existence

02:01:24.520 this late 20th century crisis marked the beginning of a shake-up in the political balance of power

02:01:31.980 in the middle east

02:01:33.320 um okay so my major concerns with this documentary is that they completely gloss over the reason

02:01:48.920 why the Americans were taken hostage in the first place. Again, unless you understand the

02:01:57.140 Islamic jihadi mindset, you cannot fully grasp the reasoning behind why they behaved the way

02:02:05.640 they did. So it was 400 university students who were, you know, the documentary said right in

02:02:12.740 beginning they were encouraged by their islamic um leaders in the universities right so these islamic

02:02:20.820 leaders um in the universities were indoctrinating the young students you know a mix of communists

02:02:28.340 and islamists the communists of course were funded by the soviets as you know the documentary

02:02:33.780 sort of touched upon but not really um they took the u.s embassy hostage because of their

02:02:40.580 anti-imperialist um ideologies right that's where you see the unholy alliance of the left

02:02:47.380 um and the islamists uniting right the left being the red um the islamists being the black um and

02:02:55.940 you know that's similar to the ideology and the narrative we're seeing in the united states today

02:03:00.900 where you have american university students who have been so indoctrinated um where they're

02:03:05.620 literally burning american flags um and yelling you know globalize the intifada free ballast sign

02:03:11.540 all that nonsense so it's that same radical jihadi um islamo-fascist ideology that ruined

02:03:18.420 iran in 1979 you're now seeing in the united states um so they never they never talk about

02:03:24.500 that right they just kind of go into you know after the islamic revolution one day you know

02:03:32.660 the islamic clerks decided let's take the americans hostage right so they kind of mentioned that but

02:03:37.540 they never go into the reasoning why um and then it almost seems like they're trying to blame uh

02:03:45.220 americans for the fact that they were taken hostage which is very weird and again you know

02:03:51.060 they focus a lot on like the iranians the iranians but it was never the iranians all the people

02:03:57.540 in this documentary are the same ones who have taken iran and iranians hostage and they have

02:04:03.140 been murdering us in the name of allah and islam and muhammad for the last 47 years so um you know

02:04:10.820 as an iranian watching this documentary the iranians that they um interviewed that's like

02:04:17.860 the equivalent of like you know interviewing nazis to talk about the holocaust right it's like it's

02:04:25.700 like you're you're interviewing nazis to explain the holocaust and you know try to downplay why

02:04:33.780 they did what they did it's very very bizarre that way um the part where they they just blatantly

02:04:41.220 said that jimmy carter backed the shah that's a hundred percent false um that is like a huge huge

02:04:48.420 lie that is a very big red flag to me um so i'm seeing a lot of you in the comments you're seeing

02:04:54.100 like two out of ten 1.5 i mean i was actually thinking somewhat higher um i was thinking maybe

02:05:05.300 maybe like a a three or a four because i would say that like maybe um nine

02:05:14.340 like 75 of it is factually um accurate and then there's 25 that is not factually accurate um

02:05:24.100 um the fact that they don't mention jimmy carter being at fault um is a is a big deal so i'm i'm

02:05:34.500 guessing maybe you're right maybe maybe it is like a two um or a 1.5 because um

02:05:41.220 yeah like that it's like interviewing himmler and goreng while they're free and in power yeah

02:05:48.420 that's that's 100 that's what it's like right um yeah and like like the fact that they mentioned

02:05:55.420 carter backing the shaw like it's wild so um yeah i don't know i guess i guess maybe

02:06:03.800 maybe it is a 1.5 1.5 i mean maybe a two i mean i'm thinking a two just because it is about 75

02:06:14.280 percent factually correct but um the the the edit the editorialization of it right like the opinions

02:06:24.360 that they add afterwards um or on top um not accurate they also of course uh demonize the

02:06:33.400 shah of iran so that's a huge red flag um and they just like throw out that islamist communist

02:06:40.120 propaganda um about the shah without any sort of proof to back it up and you know again like for

02:06:47.400 for us as iranians this is why we never watch documentaries about iran um in english especially

02:06:53.800 like you know iran after the islamic revolution because it's just so full of disinformation and

02:07:00.680 they just like they just casually blurt out the same like um islamist and communist talking

02:07:08.040 points right it doesn't matter which documentary the shah was a dictator you know oh he was an

02:07:12.820 authoritarian right like they just casually throw out these unfounded statements and yet the

02:07:20.340 documentary is literally about how the islamic terrorists consolidated uh power and turned iran

02:07:26.860 into an actual um authoritarian dictatorship so it's just one contradiction after another so

02:07:33.740 um yeah I mean I mean I'm I'm thinking I'm thinking I guess I guess a two out of ten guys

02:07:40.280 do you guys do you guys agree like a two out of ten here a two out of ten or I mean maybe a three

02:07:47.900 but you know what for me like the one thing that just

02:07:52.060 the one thing that I don't like about this documentary at all is is when they said Jimmy

02:07:58.640 carter backed the shop like that is just so glaringly false um that it makes me question

02:08:07.040 everything else they stay in this documentary so yeah okay i think i think we're gonna go with the

02:08:13.200 two we're gonna go with the two for this one um so yeah there you go um major you think it's a

02:08:22.160 one out of ten all right all right guys i'm gonna i'm gonna ask you guys in the chat again all right

02:08:26.880 between a one and a two where do you guys see this where do you guys see this give me give

02:08:31.280 me your thoughts two or one um yeah it's uh one

02:08:44.560 omid yeah they definitely did interview monsters um two out of ten one

02:08:53.360 1.5 okay

02:09:01.440 all right i'm seeing a lot more i'm seeing a lot more ones okay all right all right all right guys

02:09:08.000 we will we will give this one um a one out of ten a rating of one out of ten um

02:09:16.880 um yeah there you go so again another documentary watch party uh i want to thank everyone for

02:09:25.380 joining i want to thank especially the iranians in the chat um who helped me by giving your

02:09:30.280 thoughts and feedback and criticism on this because you know it is you guys who um make

02:09:36.260 the viewing experience much more interesting for non-iranians and it also gives non-iranians an

02:09:42.480 opportunity to hear from, from us, you know, people who've, who've lived through this or

02:09:46.880 experienced it or, or, you know, uh, have a different perspective. Um, so I hope you guys

02:09:53.520 enjoyed this and, uh, yeah, I will see you all tomorrow at 12 noon, uh, for the usual, uh, my

02:10:01.860 usual daily live stream. Uh, we're going to be talking about why Iranians are currently burning

02:10:09.260 the image of the Ayatollah. Just a few days ago, the Islamic Republic murdered another young

02:10:19.140 Iranian, this time an Iranian man named Omid Sarlak. He was brutally murdered by the Islamic

02:10:26.460 Republic. And I'm going to make the case tomorrow, guys, that, you know, he wasn't necessarily

02:10:37.460 murdered because he burned the image of Khamenei. Khamenei is the supreme dictator. He was murdered

02:10:45.860 because, like, Omid Sarlak was murdered by the Islamic Republic because he was a staunch supporter

02:10:54.200 of the Shah, and he was an Iranian monarchist who was advocating for the return of the Shah.

02:11:04.260 And the Shah in exile right now is the biggest threat to the Islamic Republic occupying Iran.

02:11:13.160 And so I believe that they murdered him because of the fact that he was an Iranian monarchist.

02:11:20.780 And I'm going to dive into that tomorrow because there's a lot to unpack there.

02:11:25.280 So thank you. Thank you, everyone, for joining.

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02:11:55.140 So thanks again, everyone.

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Goldie Ghamari - November 05, 2025

1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 444 Days Documentary： Explained by an Iranian (1⧸10)

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