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LeftInTX

(30,315 posts)
Mon Dec 5, 2022, 04:58 AM Dec 2022

Taken Hostage - PBS - American Experience - Excellent 3.5 hour doc about Iran

This is excellent. It is not what I thought it would be.

https://www.pbs.org/video/part-1-taken-hostage-american-experience-a56dcc/

https://www.pbs.org/video/part-2-taken-hostage-american-experience-b0xbv2/

It's the most indepth I have seen about US and Iran. Lots of back details. 3 hours long.

I'm at the part in the 1st episode when the Shah is visiting the US in 1977. There were protests by Iranian students, then the Shah's loyalists brought in thugs and mayhem broke out out. Tear gas was then fired, the Shah and Roslynn Carter had tear gas exposure, then President Carter had visible effects from it.

This is so involved. Barry Rosen is the focus of part 1. I'm enthralled with this.

I thought it was gonna be about the hostage crisis, but over an hour in, they haven't gotten there yet.

The Shah was very arrogant...ugh...(I have experience with ME men and he's cut from the same cloth, if you know what I mean)

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Taken Hostage - PBS - American Experience - Excellent 3.5 hour doc about Iran (Original Post) LeftInTX Dec 2022 OP
Thank you for this. no_hypocrisy Dec 2022 #1
Thanks. I will go watch it. ratchiweenie Dec 2022 #2

no_hypocrisy

(49,041 posts)
1. Thank you for this.
Mon Dec 5, 2022, 06:09 AM
Dec 2022

Reviewing the situation, I can't help but wonder if TFG's "inspiration" for 1/6 didn't come from this example of mob rule destroying government.

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