President Ronald Reagan makes a deal to trade Iranian Hostages for weapons before taking office Low — Transcript

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1. 0:00here's what
2. 0:01happened Bonnie
3. 0:09solder Bonnie solder was the that's his
4. 0:12last name was the candidate for
5. 0:15president of
6. 0:19Iran
7. 0:21and there we
8. 0:23are and he
9. 0:25was you know when the movie Argo came
10. 0:28out the movie Argo basically portray ra
11. 0:31the the Iranian people as like you know
12. 0:34bloodthirsty you know we you know we
13. 0:36want the hostages all this kind of
14. 0:39stuff
15. 0:43and so Bonnie soter come comes out and
16. 0:46here's what he wrote
17. 0:50for the Christian Science
18. 0:55monitor he says
19. 0:57aahi and Ronald Reagan had organized a
20. 1:00cestine negotiation known as the October
21. 1:04surprise which prevented the attempts by
22. 1:06myself and then US President Jimmy
23. 1:08Carter to free the hostages before the
24. 1:111980 US presidential election took fa
25. 1:14place the fact that they were not
26. 1:15released tip the results of the election
27. 1:17in favor of
28. 1:21Reagan okay this is this is the
29. 1:23president of
30. 1:27Iran he says I openly oppose the hostage
31. 1:30taking throughout the election campaign
32. 1:31telling students that occupying an
33. 1:33embassy in the heart of tyon was a sign
34. 1:34of cowardice rather than courage I won
35. 1:37the election with over 70% of the vote
36. 1:39in part on that platform other
37. 1:42candidates were also openly against
38. 1:44hostage taking and overall 96% of the
39. 1:46votes in that
40. 1:48election the election of 1980 in Iran
41. 1:52while all the hostages were being held
42. 1:5396% of votes in that election were given
43. 1:55to candidates who were against it who
44. 1:57were against the hostage taking
45. 2:01but the Reagan
46. 2:04campaign specifically Bill Casey the
47. 2:07chairperson the chairman of the Reagan
48. 2:08campaign the guy that Reagan uh rewarded
49. 2:11by making him head of the CIA Bill Casey
50. 2:14cut a deal with the
51. 2:16Ayatollah as the President of Iran at
52. 2:18that time just you know wrote last week
53. 2:20for the Christian Science monitor cut a
54. 2:22deal with the Ayatollah to hold the
55. 2:24hostages here