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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[zartosh]

West want Mullas . West is selling bellions dollar of arms to Iran neighbours just because of the situation in Iran . Iran has lost so many lives in war , persons of Islamic regim . we loose 100,000. of best student anually . They all end up in the west manily in U.S . West was afraid of Iran to become a stong and indepentent country with great brains , all the money in the world . This kind of progarm is nothoing but misleading the world . In conclusion west created this mess for Iranians .

[mohajer7t70]

Keep barking and screaming you fools, cant you see, your opinion doesn't worth shit, the great revolution, leaded by great Khomeyni is on its way to success and victory and that is what makes you mental and pissed

[sanju61822]

Allah o Akbar my Iranian brother. May Allah bless you people and your nation for giving us Muslims the dignity we had lost. Maximum love and respect from Bangladesh. Zendebad Zomhuriye Eslami, Delam tang shode Emam khomeini.

[ifoxrider]

they do have the right to practice their own religion. Just the society forces them to be different because that's how you survive

[ifoxrider]

and a person doesn't value the life human being is worst than a dog

[Hannah Tijani]

ahahah of course youre against killing homosexuals....you dont want to face death you flaming fagggg

[Pipe Bomb]

shah was just as bad. it just wasn't portrayed as such by the media because they were our allies at the time.

[M Zadeh]

RIDAM TO ROOHET KHOMEINI

[Gonzoidz]

Worst thing that ever happened to Persians was Islam. Madmen, killers, dictators.