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What can go wrong?" The Shah said,"My intelligence organization SAVAK will tell you...

Hostages • S01E01 • 2022
What can go wrong?" The Shah said,
"My intelligence organization SAVAK will tell you everything
you need to know about domestic
political dissidents in Iran." There was an unholy pact between the United States
and Iran under the Shah

Full Transcript

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What can go wrong?"
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The Shah said, "My intelligence organization
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SAVAK will tell you everything you need to know
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about domestic political dissidents in Iran."
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There was an unholy pact
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between the United States and Iran under the Shah.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:29
Uploaded
Mar 17, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary, history

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Movie Summary

November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 44...
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And it was intensifying the pressure on Carter.
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We want freedom and I want Jimmy Carter knows
S01 • E04 Under the Shah - Hostages 00:11
Under the Shah
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We had been trying to warn Washington
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If they don't let those hostages go
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So by this time
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You go and jump over the wall
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He said, "I hate the Shah
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There was enormous frustration building up even in his own f...
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I was the Assistant Secretary
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Even Rosalynn Carter wanted him to be more muscular.
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His mother, Lillian Carter
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At about a week later
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These very senior bankers are sitting around this table
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He went berserk that I was going behind his back
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The 1980s have been born in turmoil, strife, and change.
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That's how blind the people in the Embassy were
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At this time in Iran