Former diplomat kept hostage during the Iran crisis remembers Jimmy Carter : NPR

Written by on January 11, 2025

Barry Rosen is a former US diplomat who was one of the 52 hostages held in Iran for 444 days from 1979 to 1981. Here he is speaking to AFP journalists outside the Coburg palace in Vienna , Austria, on January 14, 2022.

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Former President Jimmy Carter left Washington for the final time Thursday afternoon. The nation's capital was never a comfortable place for the man from Plains, Georgia, and it's generally believed that Carter was a better . . .



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