P1/6: The Man Who Changed The World (1/18: Iran & The West - S1/3)

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Militant Islam enjoyed its first modern triumph with the arrival in power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979. In this series of three programmes, key figures tell the inside story.

Former US president Jimmy Carter talks on television for the first time about the episode that, more than any other, led American voters to eject him from the presidency. Iran's seizure of the US embassy in Tehran and the holding of its staff for 444 days took more and more of Carter's time and energy. His final days in office were dominated by desperate attempts to secure the release of the embassy hostages. Those who sat in the White House with him, planning how to rescue the hostages, how to negotiate their release and, finally, wondering whether anything could be rescued from the disaster, all tell their part in the story.

Other contributors include former vice president Walter Mondale, ex-deputy secretary of state Warren Christopher and former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The other side of the story is told by top Iranians: Ayatollah Khomeini's close adviser, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri; his first foreign minister, Ebrahim Yazdi; his negotiator with the US, Sadeq Tabatabai; and the founder of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rafiqdoust.

Broadcast on: BBC Two, 9:00pm Saturday 7th February 2009

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[airborne4lf]

look at obama, " i will prevent iran from nuclear power" he cant do shit

[chugalongway01]

Maybe if the US didn't organize a coupe in Iran in 1953,with Operation Ajax, which overthru the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the puppet regime of The Shah, they wouldn't have these problems today. Its called blowback people and by the way America is behaving in the ME they should expect alot more.

[NSnake91]

@358423 If he didn't change the world in some aspect, how and why did you watch this video and still care enough to take up your time and energy to type a comment that nobody will ever care to notice? Surely he meant something to you to make you do those things.

By the way, contrary to your asinine rant, Khomeini was actually an important figure in world history. You are just too ignorant of US foreign policy during the Cold War to ever realise that.

[hamzah938]

@chugalongway01 Mainstream media wants to make it look inevitable a war with Israel & Iran just HAS to happen!

[mrpasha1376]

MER30 AZ IN KE RIDI BE ZENDEGIMOON!

[358423]

how this bearded clown change the world? maybe he change Iran, by turning his country into shithole? but not the world obviously

[organaphus]

Iran's answer to Sean Connery...absolute scumbag. Nice bit of natural justice that he died the same year he sentenced Salman Rushdie to death.

[MegaBrian1960]

His head looks like a stink bug crossed with a nuclear mushroom cloud. 

[MegaBrian1960]

Ayatollah Frikn Komeini (AFK) was the worst thing that ever happened to Iran. He marched the whole country back into the dark ages. I would crap on his head.... Complete with onions, prunes, and psyllium husk.

[Aylaaq]

Khomaini was a great man of all time after prophets