2010 Jimmy Carter on Iranian hostages: advice was to attack Iran but kill 10K Iranians & hostages

From 2010, former President Jimmy Carter on Iranian hostages: “The main advice I got was to attack Iran…but I was convinced then and still am convinced that had I done so I would have killed maybe 10,000 innocent Iranians and they would immediately have executed our hostages.”

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2010 Jimmy Carter on Iranian hostages: advice was to attack Iran but kill 10K Iranians & our hostages

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From 2010, former President Jimmy Carter on Iranian hostages: “The main advice I got was to attack Iran…but I was convinced then and still am convinced that had I done so I would have killed maybe 10,000 innocent Iranians and they would immediately have executed our hostages

2010 Jimmy Carter on Iranian hostages: advice was to attack Iran but kill 10K Iranians & our hostages

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• As a matter of fact, when I go on a book tour, usually one or two of the hostages on the book tour will send word to Helletown they want to meet me behind the scenes
• And always, obviously give them a free book and shake hands and have photographs made
• And I’m very proud of the fact that they’re doing quite well
• So I’ve had a good friendly relationship with all of them so far as I know
• In retrospect, is there something you would have done different throughout that course
• I know you’ve set an extra helicopter on the rescue mission but can you withdraw back and look at that whole situation and wish you would have done something differently
• I mean, not knowing if I had known completely what was happening, going to happen in the future, I might have done something different
• But I don’t think so under the circumstances because I was the last holdout on my top management team in letting the shock come out
• In letting the shock come to New York for treatment of his terminal cancer
• Brzezinski and Cyrus Vance and all my advisors were saying let him come

Full transcript: 548 words transcribed via Whisper AI.