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‘He introduced us again alive’: A former hostage remembers Jimmy Carter
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‘He introduced us again alive’: A former hostage remembers Jimmy Carter

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‘He introduced us again alive’: A former hostage remembers Jimmy Carter

Barry Rosen is a former US diplomat who was one of many 52 hostages held in Iran for 444 days from 1979 to 1981. Right here he’s talking to AFP journalists exterior the Coburg palace in Vienna , Austria, on January 14, 2022.

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Former President Jimmy Carter left Washington for the ultimate time Thursday afternoon. The nation’s capital was by no means a snug place for the person from Plains, Georgia, and it is typically believed that Carter was a greater former president than president.

One cause for that notion is the Iranian hostage disaster for the final 444 days of Carter’s presidency.

52 People had been held prisoner on the U.S. embassy in Iran, together with Barry Rosen, who was the then-press attaché on the embassy.

“I sincerely believe that he saved our lives,” Rosen stated. “He sacrificed his presidency and worked assiduously for those 444 days to make our freedom the uppermost in his mind.”

All Issues Thought of host Ari Shapiro spoke with Rosen about his interactions with Carter after his launch and the way he has mirrored on Carter’s legacy within the years since.

This interview has been frivolously edited for size and readability.

Interview highlights

Ari Shapiro: What leads you to say that it was a very powerful factor to him?

President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife Rosalynn and their daughter Amy along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House following his inauguration, Jan. 20, 1977, in Washington.

Barry Rosen: Nicely, I keep in mind my spouse, Barbara, assembly with President Carter throughout that point, and he or she confirmed images of my younger son, Alexander, who was about three at the moment. And Ariana, my daughter, was one. And you would see the toll it was taking up him, after which he put that {photograph} in his go well with pocket. And I knew for positive that he checked out that.

Shapiro: He carried the photograph of your kids whilst you had been in captivity, being held hostage.

Rosen: Sure.

In this Nov. 8, 1979 file photo, one of the hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, is shown to the crowd by Iranian students.

On this Nov. 8, 1979 file photograph, one of many hostages held on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, is proven to the gang by Iranian college students.

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Shapiro: And do you give any credence to the criticism that if he had dealt with it in a different way, the disaster might have ended sooner, that you wouldn’t have needed to have spent as many days being held hostage as you had been?

Rosen: In spite of everything these years, I felt that there was no different different. I imply, sure, there might have been army motion towards Iran. However I believe that will have been taken out on us. And I believe it might have been extreme. We had been handled terribly through the hostage disaster. I used to be solely exterior for quarter-hour just one time throughout all the state of affairs.

Shapiro: Solely open air as soon as in 444 days for quarter-hour?

Rosen: Sure. I picked up a bit of grass that was on the bottom [and] put it in my pocket. And, , it introduced me again to my days as a younger boy with my father and going to baseball video games. These moments of freedom, these minutes, had been amazingly necessary for my survival.

In this photo, former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, stand outside the front facade of a house, attaching rows of siding to it.

Shapiro: The whole lot concerning the story of your captivity is extraordinary, not least of which is the occasions main as much as your launch. President Carter personally negotiated most of the particulars of the discharge, together with the unfreezing of billions in Iranian belongings. However you and the opposite hostages weren’t freed till after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president. Your airplane sat on the runway. What had been these last moments like?

Rosen: Nicely, these last moments had been unbelievably nerve-wracking. We had been placed on a bus, blindfolded, taken, I think, to Mehrabad [International] Airport at the moment. It took over an hour. And as I stepped off the bus, I noticed within the distance a lightweight, an individual pointing towards me.

Shapiro: Your blindfolds had been eliminated at this level.

Rosen: Sure. Sure, they had been. After which, a phalanx of scholar militants spat at me, and I then ran to the Air Algérie airplane that was taking us to Algeria on our first leg to Wiesbaden [in Germany]. I could not consider it. I believe there is a photograph of me getting on the airplane. I believe I used to be completely astonished.

Left: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus looks on during a press conference with the Association of Accredited Correspondents at the United Nations (ACANU) at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, on December 10, 2024. Right: Former President Jimmy Carter interviewed for "The Presidents' Gatekeepers" project at the Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, September 14, 2011.

Shapiro: Yeah.

Rosen: And it was so superb to only see the folks that I hadn’t seen for all these months. We had been by no means all collectively. We had been at all times separated. And one would by no means know from in the future to the subsequent when you had been moved, or whether or not a gun can be held to your head, or whether or not you would be compelled to signal some form of assertion of being a spy and a plotter.

Shapiro: So, you arrived in Wiesbaden in what was then West Germany, and Jimmy Carter, newly a former president, was there to satisfy you. What do you keep in mind about that first assembly?

Rosen: It was tense. And he was with Vice President [Walter] Mondale and Secretary of State [Edmund] Muskie. However he had the braveness, I believed, to come back and see us realizing that many, many, many people had been very upset with him and could not perceive the choices that had been made by way of allowing the Shah into america. I do know these are the Chilly Struggle years and all of that, however the anger was current.

In this Jan. 22, 1981 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter waves with released hostage Bruce Laingen, former chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Carter, whose presidency had ended two days earlier, paid a visit to the released hostages at the hospital, where they were lodged after being released from 444 days of captivity in Iran.

On this Jan. 22, 1981 file photograph, former President Jimmy Carter waves with launched hostage Bruce Laingen, former chargé d’affaires on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Carter, whose presidency had ended two days earlier, paid a go to to the launched hostages on the hospital, the place they had been lodged after being launched from 444 days of captivity in Iran.

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Shapiro: Have been you personally offended?

Rosen: I used to be. I’ve to confess that I simply could not perceive why all that point was spent. And we by no means actually had a notion of what was happening throughout that complete time. The hostage takers gave us no data in any respect about something. And so the isolation was so extreme.

Shapiro: And now, with greater than 40 years of hindsight, do you continue to really feel that anger, or what are your emotions?

Rosen: No, I haven’t got that anger. You understand, I’ve a greater understanding of the state of affairs that he confronted and that he introduced us again alive, and something might have occurred throughout these 444 days. And I may not have seen my spouse, Barbara, and my two kids, Alexander [and] Ariana, and my grandchildren now. So, I credit score him for taking the actual pains of that state of affairs and actually making an attempt to extricate us out of, I believe, the primary actual massive hostage state of affairs, hostage disaster that America confronted.

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