Jimmy carters opinion on the shah after the 1979 revolution
First and foremost when I watched this video, it just fuelled rage and anger inside me. The problem with this video is that jimmy carter is deliberately lying about his involvement about leaving an ally such as the shah alone in very tough moments. The problem here is Im viewing this as this sort of moral standpoint, where historically jimmy and the shah had a toast together a YEAR before the revolution. Jimmy slept in the shahs palace if I reckon correctly, and to fuck up someone like that is genuinely just shitty and now saying that he didnt have any involvement? So those messages exchanged between his administration and khomeini dont exist? He at somepoint even stated that why does Iran have 80 f-14s when we dont even have them in full swing in the presidential debate against ford. The 1980 iranian hostage crisis was caused by his own ignorance and lack of research about khomeinis background, so saying we had no involvement leading to the shahs downfall is shitty as fuck