Youve been listening to william daugherty. His book is called in the shadow of the ayatollah. He was a hostage in iran during the embassy takeover, and now its your turn to take your questions to him directly. The phone numbers will be up on the screen. Lets begin with a call from martin in chicago for william daugherty. Martin, youre on the air. Go ahead. Caller hi, dr. Dawg cannerty. You said that the iranians blame us for everything, so what are we responsible for . Guest well, were not entirely blameless. We stayed out of Iranian Affairs for the most part until the nixon administration. The shah and his predecessor during the 20th century kept pressing the United States for particularly military equipment as dictators, autocrats tend to do. But we, we left things basically alone. Iran was kind of a side show to, in what the british and the russians called the great game, dealing with afghanistan and that part of the world. Iran did sit across the trade routes to india which was ver
Americans. They were responsible for the destruction of the Marine Barracks this beirut in april of or, im sorry, october of 198ing 3. 241 dead american marines. Not many wounded because at that time it was the largest nonnuclear explosion ever in history. 241 dead marines. And there was no retaliation on the part of the americans. Since then the [inaudible] towers, 19 dead americans. By grace of god, there was not more. Ultimately, over 900 americans have been killed by iranian terrorism. Ask you know what . And you know what . There has not been a single day of payment on the part of the iranians. We have never made the iranians pay in any significant way for killing americans. Are we done . I think we are. Okay. Sorry. Unfortunately. [applause] thank you, dr. Daugherty. Gosh, we could stay here forever. But upon exiting the venue today, our wonderful volunteers will enthusiastically accept your donations to the savannah book test value. It is because of your generosity were able to
Eight years in the u. S. Pa marine corps before joining the Central Intelligence agency where he served as an Operations Officer for 17 years. Dr. Daugherty is Professor Emeritus of government at the university of californiairvine. He is the author of executive secrets covert action and the presidency and in the shadow of the ayatollah a cia hostage in iran. And he also lives here in savannah. Please give a warm, hometown welcome to william daugherty. Ms. Thank you all for coming. What an amazing crowd. Shouldnt you all be out playing tennis or walking your dog or something [laughter] i do want to, need to correct one thing. I just did a degree at the university of california. Actually, im an emeritus professor at armstrong. And and since i have a cap tuf audience here captive audience, im going to digress from my normal talk for two minutes and address the university of georgia board of regents. [laughter] about 10 or 12 years ago, armstrong was a commuter college with no residence ha
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